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We all love a Tudor and since, for the time being, we’ve bled Henry VIII and his wives and daughters dry, we turn to his paternal grandmother, Margaret Beaufort.
At age 14, she gave birth to the last male of the once mighty House of Lancaster, Henry Tudor. Despite going on to marry three times, she would never give birth again, focusing all her ambition on her only child, Henry VII, father to Henry VIII and grandfather to Queen Elizabeth I. Philippa Gregory allows Margaret to tell her own story and, through her letters and narration, she unwittingly reveals her insecurities, fanaticism and hypocrisy.
It’s an entertaining insight into the origins of the House of Tudor.
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