![]() ![]() Involved at the highest level in one of the most controversial mysteriesĪlison Weir builds an intriguing portrait of thisīeloved queen, placing her in the context of the magnificent,Ĭeremonious, often brutal, world she inhabited, and revealing the womanīehind the myth, showing that differing historical perceptions of Shows that Elizabeth was, in fact, influential, and may have been It has been said thatĮlizabeth was distrusted and kept in subjection by Henry VII and herįormidable mother-in-law, Margaret Beaufort, but contemporary evidence Model consort, mild, pious, generous and fruitful. Yet after marriage, a picture emerges of a Killed her brothers, and it is likely that she then intrigued to put Had schemed to marry Richard III, the man who had deposed and probably ![]() ![]() Sovereign of the House of Tudor, married her, thus uniting the red and Heiress to the royal House of York, and in 1486, Henry VII, first Murders of her brothers, the Princes in the Tower, left Elizabeth Relegated from pampered princess to bastard fugitive, but the probable The eldest daughter of Edward IV, at seventeen she was Today I am thrilled to be taking part in the celebrations for the publication of the first in a new series on the Tudors by Alison Weir, Elizabeth of York The Last White Rose.Įlizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that ![]()
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