From best-selling
historian, Sarah Gristwood comes the true story behind Philippa
Gregory’s recent novels – the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty.
It is a fiery history of Queens, the perils of power and of how the
Wars of the Roses were ended – not by knights in battle, but the sinewy
political skills of women.
The events of the Wars of the Roses are usually described in terms of the men involved; Richard, Duke of
York, Henry VI, Edward IV and Henry VII. The reality though, argues
Sarah Gristwood, was quite different. These years were also packed with
women's drama and – in the tales of conflicted maternity and monstrous
births – alive with female energy.
In this completely original
book, acclaimed author Sarah Gristwood sheds light on a neglected
dimension of English history: the impact of Tudor women on the Wars of
the Roses. She examines Cecily Neville, the wife of Richard Duke of
York, who was deprived of being queen when her husband died at the
Battle of Wakefield; Elizabeth Woodville, a widow with several children
who married Edward IV in secret and was crowned queen consort; Margaret
Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, whose ambitions centred on her son and
whose persuasions are likely to have lead her husband Lord Stanley,
previously allied with the Yorkists, to play his part in Henry's
victory.
Until now, the lives of these women have remained little
known to the general public. Sarah Gristwood tells their stories in
detail for the first time. Captivating and original, this is historical
writing of the most important kind.
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