Did a medieval secret invalidate the British monarchy? Historians uncover compelling archival evidence suggesting King Edward IV was illegitimate. If true, this single flaw breaks the royal line, meaning every subsequent monarch—from Henry VII and Elizabeth I to the House of Windsor—has ruled without a true claim to the throne. Follow the explosive genealogical quest to trace the real line of succession, from the Plantagenets who were ruthlessly wiped out, through centuries of turbulent history, to discover the person alive today who should be Britain's reigning monarch: an ordinary man living thousands of miles away in the Australian outback.
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