KINGMAKER strangely devoid of glamour
Having read several books about the era, I sat back hoping to be royally entertained, and I regret that I was sadly disappointed. I quite understood that a biography was not a 'penny dreadful' full of titillating trivia about the man's life - Kendall quite rightly points out that very little such detail survives about the most colourful and controversial figure of the day. One might conjecture that histories of the Kingmaker as might be kept in Church records would have been an especial target during the time that Henry VIII was ransacking monasteries and cloisters alike and burning every remnant of Catholicism that his soldiers could lay their hands on. Therefore only private records such as the Paston letters remain on which to rebuild a legend.
Be that as it may, 'Warwick the Kingmaker" appears to be an accurate record. Through no fault of the author, I fear the glamour and a detail of the private life of the Kingmaker must be left to the imagination.
