Chapter Five Summary

Grant learns from The Rose of Raby about Cecily Nevill, Duchess of York, who was mother to the two York brothers, Richard and Edward, pure-bred Englishmen from an impressively royal family line. The book's author, Evelyn Payne-Ellis, deduces that Cecily Nevill was in love with her husband, Richard Plantagenet, because instead of staying at home, she accompanied her husband on his many travels, a fact witnessed to by the different birthplaces of her eight children.

Grant reads a passage from a letter wherein Cecily Nevill watches her brother, son and husband leave for battle, wondering which might not return, and hoping for young Edmund's safety. His interest is piqued by a mention of younger Richard in the background, the changeling baby with dark brows and brown hair. While her other son wins his battle at Towton, Cecily's husband, brother and son...