People/Characters Richard Grey

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Richard III by William Shakespeare
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Dead Water by Ann Cleeves
The Glamour [2005 Revised] by Christopher Priest — not in English Common Knowledge
Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen by Arlene Okerlund
Wish for a Pony by Monica Edwards
The Summer of the Great Secret by Monica Edwards
Hidden in a Dream by Monica Edwards
The Nightbird by Monica Edwards
Heliotrope: The Speculative Fiction Magazine, Spring 2009 by Jay Tomio

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Richard Grey (1457–1483) was the younger son of Sir John Grey and Elizabeth Woodville. After John Grey's death fighting for the cause of Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses, Elizabeth managed to marry the Yorkist King Edward IV. Grey's stepfather knighted him and giave him several positions of authority, including a role in the education of his half-brother Edward, Prince of Wales. Grey was arrested and executed when Richard III took the throne.