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[dubdobdee]

12.

i: What was renamed after Mr Pusey’s boss?
ii: Who rose to a great height following her marriage?
iii: Which Gypsy wore an old red blanket and a chip hat?
iv: Whose death in a Norwegian outpost precipitated a constitutional crisis?
v: Which widow allegedly poisoned her husband with powdered glass in his coffee?
vi: Who joined in stabbing the heir to the throne, perhaps fictitiously, atop a mole-hill?
vii: Who supported the proclamation of her apparent nephew as King Richard IV?
viii: Who looked to Basingstoke for the restoration of sanity?
ix: Who might be regarded as the last Queen of Mann?
x: Who, “in death, was not divided” from her brother?

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[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

The question's answer is at the battle of Wakefield, which Team York lost. Richard of York was captured and (in the Shakespeare) Team Lancaster, including Margaret of Anjou, pull him up onto a molehill and put a paper crown on his head and give him a cloth drenched with the blood of his dead youngest son to wipe his tears with, and then stab him to death. Lots of good lines including "She-wolf of France, yet worse than wolves of France" and "Tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!" and "Off with the crown, and with the crown his head!"

Henry VI wanders over to a different molehill to watch the battle of Towton, where he also gets an excellent speech about wanting to be a shepherd instead of a king.

Warwick the Kingmaker changed sides like three times but I'm pretty sure he was on Team York for both of those battles.