Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Book 3 - The Red Queen

By Philippa Gregory

ISBN: 9781471161018
Series: The Plantagemet and Tudor Novels
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13  x 2.5
Weight (kg): .3

Very good condition.

We may all be cousins; but they are of the House of York and we are of the House of Lancaster. Never forget it.

1453. Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort is a strikingly pious child. Saints' knees her stigmata, she has a fierce and unwavering sense of identity. If not a nun, then she'll be Queen of England and sign her name Margaret Regina: Margaret R.

Still a girl, Margaret is sent to a loveless marriage in remote Wales. There, she gives birth to a son whom she names for king, her cousin, Henry VI of England, who is sinking in to madness. Determined to put her Henry on England's throne, regardless of the overwhelming power of the York dynasty, she sends him into exile and pledges him in marriage to the daughter of her enemy Elizabeth Woodville.

Meanwhile, devoted in her belief that her House is the true ruler of England, Margaret feigns loyalty to the usurper King Richard III and masterminds one of the greatest rebellions of all time.