Women Writing on the Devon Land: A County's Women Who Wrote - circa 1965

  Part 3; White Rose and Golden Broom   (Read Part 1 and Part 2 ) 'He was taken to Taunton and accompanied the king as a prisoner on the triumphal march to Exeter where the monarch was welcomed with jubilation…Perkin's wife Katherine was fetched from St Michael's Mount. The king took a shine to her, and she was accepted into his court under the wing of the queen and eventually remarried. While she was in Exeter, Perkin was humiliated by being forced to repeat his confession in front of her …' ( Devon Perspectives). 'Perkin Warbeck, another pretender to Henry VII’s throne, was given a similar Tudor spin – an odd name, humble background, documented torture, beatings to the face – to paper over the strong possibility, backed by crowned heads across Europe, that he was the genuine Richard, Duke of York (the youngest of the princes in the Tower).'  ( British Heritage ) Cast of White Rose & Golden Broom C20 Coldridge links; Beatrix Cresswell ‘s Pageant ‘It is a