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first learnt about Richard and Philip’s relationship in James Reston Jr.’s Warriors of God, one of the few histories I’ve read that lends the rumors of their romantic entanglement credence. The concept of two kings so destined to rivalry falling in love utterly captivated me. Further inspiration came from the perfect 1968 film adaptation of The Lion in Winter, in which a young Timothy Dalton made Philip dark-haired and blue-eyed in my mind forevermore.
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