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Less well-known than his brothers- Edward IV and Richard III- little has been written about George- Duke of Clarence- leaving us with a series of unanswered questions: What was he really like? What set him and his brother Edward IV against one another? And who was really responsible for his death?George played a central role in the Wars of the Roses- played out by his family. But was George for York or Lancaster? Is the story of his drowning in a barrel of wine really true? And was false- fleeting- perjurd Clarence in some ways one of the role models behind the sixteenth-century defamation of Richard III?Finally- where was he buried and what became of his body? Could the DNA used recently to test the remains of his younger brother- Richard III- also reveal the truth about the supposed Clarence bones in Tewkesbury?Here- John Ashdown-Hill brings us a new full biography of George- Duke of Clarence- which exposes the myths surrounding this important Plantagenet prince- and reveals the fascinating results of Johns recent reexamination of the Clarence vault and its contents....