fell to his two uncles, John of Bedford and Humphrey of Gloucester, the two surviving brothers of the late king.
That made all their children her aunts and uncles, and their grandchildren her cousins.
But Richard wds tactless; he openly flouted his two uncles, John of Gaunt and Thomas of Woodstock, and took no pains to conciliate either the baronage or the commons.
During the government of his uncles (Frederick Augustus I.
Lindsay-Bethune, routed the much superior combined forces (6000 men) of the shah's two rebellious uncles, Firman-Firma and Shuja es Saltana.