Elizabeth has used her influence to make sure her family have high-ranking positions. Richard uses this to criticise Queen Elizabeth and her family and to encourage conflict in the royal court. From 1389 when Richard declared himself to be of age, he influenced more closely the direction of government. Replaced at the height of his power, Richard had been compromised by the narrowness of his own power base and his personal inability to live up to the image that he created for the crown. Just as the Black Death shook the foundations of society from below, so the fall of Richard II and subsequent Wars of the Roses would redefine it from above. Stranded in Ireland with no means of returning to Wales and then England, Richard had to watch while the greatest nobles of the land deserted him to join Bolingbroke.

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  • The Scots, unable to match this force, retreated and refused to be drawn into battle, leaving Richard to burn the border abbeys and depart without gain.
  • He built up the power of a new courtier nobility such as John Holand, his half-brother and Earl of Huntingdon, the new chamberlain and rival to the Courtenay, Earls of Devon.
  • A 28 year truce with France in 1396, sealed with Richard’s betrothal to a French princess left Richard free to look westwards again.
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  • Indeed, the king felt so secure that he went marching off to Ireland for the second time, taking his best and most loyal men with him.
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What does Richard mean?

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  • Replaced at the height of his power, Richard had been compromised by the narrowness of his own power base and his personal inability to live up to the image that he created for the crown.
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  • Again, Richard II is so self-absorbed that he fails to see that there are many currents and movements in society which exist outside his own world.
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  • He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972.
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  • The son of England’s greatest warrior lord, the Black Prince, and a renowned European beauty, Joan of Kent, Richard was born in Bordeaux, 1367.

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The marriage treaty had secured peace with France, while the one power in the land who had posed a real threat to Richard’s position was dead. Indeed, the king felt so secure that he went marching off to Ireland for the second time, taking his best and most loyal men with him. Richard constructed the first royal bathhouse, may well have invented the pocket handkerchief and used a spoon for the first time. In his patronage of architecture and personal piety, his reign has a powerful legacy in some of the key parts of Westminster Great Hall, York Minster and Canterbury Cathedral. The medieval parliament and king’s court often sat under its carved angels and it was from here that the kingdom was ruled.

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The king had his revenge and now handed out a slew of titles and land making, amongst others, Nottingham the Duke of Norfolk and Derby the Duke of Hereford. In the process the traditional power bases Richard were alienated and the political map of England redrawn. Richard II became the first king to visit Ireland since 1210 and the last to do so before the 1690s.

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Leading several thousand men and virtually all of the loyal nobility, Richard defeated the Irish chieftains in the Southeast. A 28 year truce with France in 1396, sealed with Richard’s betrothal to a French princess left Richard free to look westwards again. He built up the power of a new courtier nobility such as John Holand, his half-brother and Earl of Huntingdon, the new chamberlain and rival to the Courtenay, Earls of Devon. Using his 1390 Book of Statutes Richard now rebuilt his government, authority and image. Gaunt was carefully nurtured until 1394, when the king had gained the authority he needed. The Appellants now controlled the government and were faced with being judged by their own actions as rulers.

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In 1986, in his Virgin Atlantic Challenger II, he beat the record by two hours with a sailing expert named Daniel McCarthy. In 1972, using money earned from his record store, Branson launched the record label Virgin Records with Powell. Branson bought a country estate north of Oxford in which he installed a residential recording studio, The Manor Studio. Branson used the magazine to advertise popular albums, driving his record sales. A portrayal of Richard II stopping the joust between Hereford and Norfolk  © The picture gets very complicated at this stage as the chronicles only contain Hereford’s side of the story. Richard made his second ill-fated trip to Ireland in June 1399, making some military advances before Bolingbroke landed in north England.

  • Richard uses this to criticise Queen Elizabeth and her family and to encourage conflict in the royal court.
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  • The king resigned under pressure on 29 September 1399, bringing his 22 year reign to an end.
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  • Parliament demanded further reforms and refused to pay off the government’s debts while the French raised 30,000 men only to find that they too could not afford to actually invade England.
  • Elizabeth has used her influence to make sure her family have high-ranking positions.
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  • Richard is also jealous of the influence Queen Elizabeth has over her husband, King Edward IV.
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The reality of power

Richard was imprisoned and died, probably murdered, in Pontefract Castle in 1400. In the early years of Richard’s reign, advisors (the continual councils) directed domestic and foreign policy. Heavy taxation provoked popular opposition, coming to a head in the so-called ‘Peasants’ Revolt’ of 1381. Richard is appointed Lord Protector of England, putting him in charge until the boys grow up. They were already working on a demo of the song Living In A Box, and invited him to sing the lead vocals.
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Shakespeare’s Richard III – Queen Elizabeth

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As part of his promotion of the firm, Branson has added a variation of the Virgin Galactic livery to his personal business jet, the Dassault Falcon 900EX “Galactic Girl” (G-GALX). Branson said that he wept when the sale was completed because the record business had been the very start of the Virgin empire. He created V2 Records in 1996 to re-enter the music business, owning 5% himself. In 1971 he was questioned in connection with the selling of records declared export stock. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972.