Now Tamerlano offers to help Andronico claim the throne of Greece.

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These spiralling conflicts eventually drove Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, to assert his own claim to the throne.

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The Tudors, who controlled More's world, had a vested interest in disparaging Richard and bolstering their family's claim to the throne.

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He is betting that, in a face-to-face meeting, he can talk Shari into abandoning the claim to the throne that he himself had granted.

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His claim to the English throne was based on the assertion it had been promised to him in 1051 by his distant cousin Edward the Confessor - a promise that Harold, Duke of Wessex, had sworn to uphold, he said.

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