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Mata Hari was unjustly executed, author contends.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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PARIS _ She was the daughter of a British lord and an Indian princess, she told suitors, and counted among her many lovers the crown prince of Germany. She was Indonesian, she told others, and had learned her exotic dances in a Buddhist temple.
With all her stories, veil upon veil, it was not hard for the French to believe the talk during her trial that this perfidious woman had bathed each day in fresh milk while soldiers on the front lines went thirsty.
Or that her whispers were to blame for the ambush of 50,000 troops or the torpedoing of French ships.
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The Kings' mother: Joanna Laynesmith examines claims that Edward IV was a bastard and tells the dramatic story of his mother, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...source of the rumour was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, who was both the King...law. That summer Warwick had provoked rebellion...famously pious Cecily Neville, Duchess of York...wardship of the young Richard Duke of York in 1423...
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Warwick the Kingmaker.(Review)
Magazine article from: History Today
; Warwick the Kingmaker Michael Hicks Blackwell...pounds sterling] ISBN 0631-16259-3 RICHARD NEVILLE, earl of Warwick, `the setter-up and plucker-down...forty years ago. This major study of Warwick's life and career is long overdue...
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Show brings to life secrets of Earl's ship; TV EXPERTS AIM TO RESTORE RELIC BURIED FOR MORE THAN 500 YEARS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...have been owned by the Earl of Warwick will be shown on television...years of the Earl of Warwick and the War of the Roses...about 1468. Documents at Warwick Record Office, in Priory Park, show Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick...
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Landed earl beats Roman in rich list A North Lincolnshire landowner who died more than 500 years ago, would be worth more than Chelsea's Russian owner Roman Abramovich, if he were alive today.
Newspaper article from: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
; ...he were alive today. Richard de Beauchamp, the 13th Earl of Warwick, was said to be worth...look like small change. Richard de Beauchamp's wealth...are Beauchamp, Earl, Warwick, Lygon, Talbot and Neville. The 13th Earl of Warwick...
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Racing links are steeped in history
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...inhabitants of the castle was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, also known as The Kingmaker...It was in 1462 that a young Richard, then Duke of Gloucester, first...Richard met his future wife, Anne Neville - Warwick's daughter - and...
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Beauty and the beasts
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...inhabitants of the castle was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, also known as "The Kingmaker...It was in 1462 that a young Richard, (then Duke of Gloucester...Richard met his future wife, Anne Neville (Warwick's daughter), and...
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Warwick's growing fort; COVENTRY: THE MAKING OF A CITY.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...ancestor. The title of Earl of Warwick eventually passed to Richard Neville, who later earned the title Warwick the Kingmaker. The...Gloucester, later Richard III. George, Duke...there were no more Earls of Warwick.
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Royal inspiration for bestseller-in-waiting
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post
; ...Wensleydale, the 15th-century stronghold of Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick who put Edward on the throne of England as Edward...Edward, Duke of York; Deravenel's cousin Neville is Warwick; Henry Grant is Henry VI. The robustness of...
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Remains of ship linked to Kingmaker.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...be traced back to a former Earl of Warwick, historians believe. The...from about 1468. Documents at Warwick Record Office, in Priory Park, show Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick from 1428 to 1471, was paying...
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John Archer (c.1416-60).(Common Sense)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...to feof-fees, headed by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, whom he described as 'dominus...the Earl's uncle, Edward Neville, Lord Bergavenny. His purpose...against the protectorate of Warwick's ally, Richard, Duke of York, in the following...
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