Happy Birthday to Richard, Duke of Gloucester & Lord of the North, last Plantagenet King of England, born this day, 2 October, 1452.

'The Duke of Gloucester, that most noble prince, young of age, victorious in battle�?Grace him followeth, fortune and good speed. I suppose he is the same that clerks of read, Fortune hath him chosen and forth with him will go. Her husband to be, the will of God is so.'
--Verses on the recovery of the throne by Edward IV after the battle of Barnet, 1471