Crossword-Solution: KINGMAKER 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

How if both were fathers, one natural, one adoptive? How if the heir of Tembaitake, like the heir of Tembinok’ himself, were not a son, but an adopted nephew? How if the founder of the monarchy, while he worked for his brother, worked at the same time for the child of his loins? How if on the death of Tembaitake, the two stronger natures, father and son, king and kingmaker, clashed, and Tembinok’, when he drove out his uncle, drove out the author of his days? Here is at least a tragedy four-square.

From Bulwer's novel, he had read the story of Warwick the Kingmaker, and upon leaving home had chosen it for his own.

Then the king and the kingmaker quarreled, and at last became open enemies and fought one another on the field of battle.

The dreamy peaceful days of the Tower of London were stirred by the arrival of the great Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker, as people already called him.

The Archbishop was exceedingly busy with the work of his office and the defence of London in case of Edward’s threatened return; but he had not yet come, and no one thought there was a reasonable doubt that Warwick, the Kingmaker, would not be victorious, and he had carried his son-in-law, the Duke of Clarence, with him.’ After the cause of the Red Rose was won, there was no fear but that the services of Clifford would be remembered.