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- ↑ "Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty". Channel5.com. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
- ↑ Jones, Dan (27 November 2014). "The Plantagenets: On the trail of Britain's bloodiest dynasty". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 December 2017.
