Anne Neville, Queen of England, daughter of the Kingmaker, widow of the forgotten prince, tends to get reduced to a footnote as Richard III’s wife, but her story is far more complicated than that.

She was the younger daughter of Richard Neville, the so-called “Kingmaker”, and grew up right in the middle of the chaos of the Wars of the Roses. By the time she was still very young, she had already seen her father switch allegiances, watched fortunes rise and collapse, married the Lancastrian heir, lost him after a brutal battle, and found herself at the centre of a scramble over her inheritance.

In this episode of Dead People Talking, we trace Anne’s path from her father’s powerful household to the English throne. Along the way, we’ll look at the shifting alliances of the period, the Wars of the Roses, the circumstances around  ...