John Collan’s world has just been turned upside down. The nine year-old has just learned that he is not actually a peasant boy, son of a dairy farmer. Rather, he is told that he is in fact Edward, Earl of Warwick, and that he is expected to overthrow Henry VII, the new Tudor King, and assume the throne. John is whisked away to Oxford, where he assumes the name Lambert Simnel and begins his aristocratic education. The ensuing years take him to Burgundy and then […]