The Stolen Crown is a narrative from the perspective of Harry, the Duke of Buckingham and his wife Kate during the reign of Edward IV and the War of the Roses. Harry, a Lacastrian, grows up in the Yorkist custody of Edward's queen Elizabeth Woodville and at a young age is married to Elizabeth's youngest sister Kate. They grow up together and each provide their perspective of life during one of the most turbulent periods of British history. There is certainly a lot going on, power is seized and relinquished, marriages are made and unmade, and a very important Welshman lingers on the fringes and bides his time...Frankly, if you do not have at least a moderately good grasp of the history during this period, I think you will be hopelessly confused and if you do know the history well, you may be bored. The book is very well researched and well written, but it was a confusing time. Trying to figure out which Duke is allied with which Earl and raised what army and surrounded whose castle and was then captured, then was pardoned for some reason, then became allied with someone else, raised another army, fought a battle, married an heiress, then got an annulment requires a lot of patience. I felt like it was more a recounting of history than a fictional novel, and as I have read other books set during this era there wasn't much originality in Kate and Harry's story, though they were very likable. In fact, I liked the characters a lot but wasn't too engaged with the book as a whole, so I didn't finish it, knowing how it would end for Kate and Harry. My disclaimer on this review is that I only read 3/4 of it, and it was OK but it wasn't hard to put it down to read something else the library wants back in a hurry.