Widowed a second time, Margaret marries the ruthless, deceitful Thomas, Lord Stanley, and her fate stands on the knife edge of his will. She feigns loyalty to the usurper Richard III and even carries his wife's train at her coronation. As the political tides constantly move and shift, Margaret charts her own way through another loveless marriage, treacherous alliances, and secret plots. Disregarding rival heirs and the overwhelming power of the York dynasty, she names him Henry, like the king sends him into exile and pledges him in marriage to her enemy Elizabeth of York's daughter. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne of England regardless of the cost to herself, to England, and even to the little boy. Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret is determined to turn her lonely life into a triumph. But worst of all for Margaret is when she discovers that her mother is sending her to a loveless marriage in remote Wales. Her mother mocks her plans, revealing that Margaret will always be burdened with the reputation of her father, one of the most famously incompetent English commanders in France. Her ambitions are disappointed when her sainted cousin Henry VI fails to recognize her as a kindred spirit, and she is even more dismayed when he sinks into madness. These are all novels, apart from the History section which is a companion guide to the first three books in the Plantagenet and Tudor series.Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a great destiny before her.
Aesthetically they always looked great on a shelf together! I've grouped these together by series. These novels are well-researched, fictionalised accounts of real events.
We used to sell lots of Philippa Gregory in our bookshop and with good reason.
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