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Succession [electronic resource]

Michael, Livi2014
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Behind the bloody battle scenes of the Wars of the Roses lie the sinewy political skills of a remarkable pair of women.Margaret of Anjou, French, beautiful, unpopular; her marriage in 1444 to a young Henry VI causes national uproar. As English rule in France collapses, Henry goes insane, civil war erupts, and families are pitted against each other. With Henry VI incapacitated, Margaret Anjou is left to fight alone for her son's position as rightful heir. Meanwhile Margaret Beaufort, nobly born but far more distant from the throne, becomes a great heiress while only an infant. Her childhood is lived in echoing remote castles and she is lonely and vulnerable: everyone at Henry's court competes to be her guardian and to engineer an advantageous alliance through marriage to her. By the age of thirteen, she has married twice and given birth to her only son - the future King of England. But then she is separated from him . . . and her fight really begins Succession is the intense and powerful story of the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty.
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9780241966693
Language:
English
BRN:
3006243
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