Her paternal grandfather Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury was the brother of Buckingham's paternal grandmother ( also named Anne Neville ), making Buckingham the Queen's second cousin.

* Buckingham's paternal grandmother Lady Anne Neville was a granddaughter of John of Gaunt through his daughter Joan Beaufort, making her a great-granddaughter of Edward III.

* Buckingham's maternal grandfather Edmund Beaufort was a grandson of John of Gaunt, the youngest son of his son John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset.

Buckingham's army was greatly troubled by the same storm and deserted when Richard's forces came against them.

In 1449 he was elected as MP for the Duke of Buckingham's safe seat of Great Bedwyn.

Buckingham's guilt depends on the princes having already been dead by October 1483, since he was executed the following month.

Her daughter Ursula married the Duke of Buckingham's son, Henry Stafford, but after the Duke's fall, the couple was given only some fragments of his estates.

Richard eventually put down the rebellion ; Henry's ships ran into a storm and had to go back to Brittany, and Buckingham's army was greatly troubled by the same storm and deserted when Richard's forces came against them.

This was probably one of Buckingham's motives in supporting Richard's accession as King.

Buckingham's father Humphrey, Earl Stafford, was son of Lady Anne Neville ( c. 1411 – 1480 ).

Edward's son Edward V was thus Buckingham's second cousin, as was the younger Edward's sister Elizabeth of York, later wife and Queen consort of Henry VII of England.

* Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII was Buckingham's second cousin.

Buckingham's mother was Lady Margaret Beaufort ( c. 1427 – 1474 ), daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset.

A final adjustment of the Appomattox-Buckingham county line was made in 1860 and Buckingham's borders then became fixed in their current form.

The negotiations had long been stuck, but it is believed that Buckingham's crassness was key to the total collapse of agreement ; the Spanish ambassador asked Parliament to have Buckingham executed for his behaviour in Madrid ; but Buckingham gained popularity by calling for war with Spain on his return.

Buckingham's popularity suffered further when he was blamed for the failure of the military expedition under the command of Ernst von Mansfeld, a famous German mercenary general, sent to the continent to recover the Electorate of the Palatinate ( 1625 ), which had belonged to Frederick V, Elector Palatine, son-in-law of King James I of England.

Buckingham's daughter, Lady Mary Villiers, was the wife of the Royalist 1st Duke of Richmond.

Buckingham's approach to the religious problem of the day was ' comprehension ', something less than religious tolerance but aimed at least at bringing in the Presbyterians among nonconformists to the Church of England by some peaceful form of negotiation and arrangement.

Buckingham, Charles's favourite, was in charge of prosecuting the war, and with it going badly the Commons inquired into Buckingham's use of previous grants, and various controversies within the admiralty.

This force was scattered after a minor engagement near Kingston upon Thames in which Buckingham's brother Francis was killed.

With these exceptions Buckingham's tenure of office was chiefly marked by scandals and intrigues.

The era is recreated by the historical reenactment group Buckingham's Retinue, that attempts to portray the Stafford Household and the Duke of Buckingham's Riding Retinue.

In December 1617 his friend George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham procured for him the position of Secretary of State on the condition of his making Christopher Villiers, Buckingham's brother, his heir, and during his lifetime Villiers gained from Naunton estates worth £ 500 a year.

After Buckingham's death in 1687 the house remained empty until the estate was purchased by George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney in 1696.

' Hudson's father John was keeper of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham's baiting bulls.

In the Lords, he resisted George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham's attempt to find a treasonable meaning on a speech of Sir Dudley Digges ( 13 May 1626 ).

( Montgomery was a friend of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, serving as godfather of Buckingham's son Lord Charles Herbert, and in 1626 agreeing to a betrothal between his 4-year-old daughter and Lord Charles Herbert.

Richard himself also provides some dry remarks in evaluating the situation, as when he plans to marry Queen Elizabeth's daughter: " Murder her brothers, then marry her ; Uncertain way of gain ..." Other examples of humour in this play include Clarence's reluctant murderers, and the Duke of Buckingham's report on his attempt to persuade the Londoners to accept Richard ("...

The tract provoked some rejoinders and was defended, amongst others, by William Penn, and by the author himself in The Duke of Buckingham's Letter to the unknown author of a short answer to the Duke of Buckingham's Paper ( 1685 ).

Wycherley's efforts to bring to the Duke of Buckingham's notice the case of Samuel Butler shows that the writer of even such heartless plays as The Country Wife may have generous impulses, while his defence of Buckingham, when the duke in his turn fell into trouble, show that the inventor of so shameless a fraud as that which forms the pivot of The Plain Dealer may in actual life possess that passion for fair play which is seldom believed to be an English quality.

Later in the summer, learning of the apparent murder of both his young half-brothers, Grey joined the Duke of Buckingham's rebellion against Richard III.

* The poet Alexander Pope wrote ( c. 1730 ) of the Duke of Buckingham's affair with Anna, Countess of Shrewsbury: " Gallant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove / The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love.

He was surveyor for the Duke of Buckingham's Tufnell Park estate, for the Barnard estate, and the Bethnal Green estate.

In the same year Tonson published the Duke of Buckingham's Works, and in 1725 Pope's edition of Shakespeare.

The only reference to these wanderings is in the reconciliation scene between Charles and the Duke of Buckingham, when Charles says, responding to Buckingham's statement that, " It's amazing what will do when they feel guilty.

The members of the band seemed to have gone their separate ways until Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham got together again for one of Lindsey Buckingham's solo projects.

After Fritz disbanded in 1972, Nicks and Buckingham continued to write and record as a duo, producing demo tapes at the coffee plant belonging to Buckingham's father Morris.

According to bassist John McVie, a " physically ugly " confrontation between Nicks and Buckingham ensued when Nicks angrily challenged Buckingham's decision to leave the band.

After initially supporting Richard, Buckingham subsequently started working with John Morton, Bishop of Ely, in support of Buckingham's second-cousin Henry Tudor against the King, even though this placed him on the same side as his despised Woodville in-laws.

In April 1996, though, conflicts between Buckingham and Richardson were resolved once and for all, when Buckingham's 159 acres ( 0. 6 km² ) were annexed into the city of Richardson.

The city of La Rochelle initially refused to declare itself an ally of Buckingham, in a state of war against the crown of France, and effectively denied access to its harbour to Buckingham's fleet.

Painting by Raja Ravi Varma depicting Buckingham being greeted by Visakham Thirunal, with Ayilyam Thirunal of Travancore looking on, during Buckingham's visit to Trivandrum, Travancore in early 1880.