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The red queen the white queen5/28/2023 ![]() Whilst feigning friendship, firstly for the golden Edward IV and then his usurper brother Richard III, she secretly plots to restore her only son, Henry Tudor, and thus the Lancastrian line to their rightful place on the throne of England. But after becoming a young widow and mother, Margaret goes on to endure, with unwavering faith and determination, two more love-less marriages, the dramatic downfall of her house and the rise of her enemies: the Yorks. ![]() In which, Gregory retells the bloody rivalry between the Houses of York and Lancaster, what we now call the War of the Roses, through the eyes of the indomitable women caught up in it all and in this book, The Red Queen, Gregory switches sides to Margaret Beaufort, the Queen Mother of Henry VII.Īs a Lancastrian and the heir to the Beaufort fortune, Margaret becomes the prized child-bride of Edmund Tudor, the half-brother of Henry VI. After loving The White Queen about Elizabeth Woodville last year, I was very eager to continue reading Philippa Gregory’s popular Cousins’ War series. ![]()
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