Alison Weir – Elizabeth of York (The First Tudor Queen) (2013) (48)
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Title: Elizabeth of York (The First Tudor Queen)
Author: Alison Weir
Read By: Maggie Mash
Copyright: 2013
Genre: Nonfiction
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Book Description
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Bestselling historian Alison Weir tells the poignant, suspenseful and
sometimes tragic story of Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Yorkist
King Edward IV and sister of the Princes in the Tower, a woman whose
life was inextricably caught up in the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses
and the establishment of the usurping Tudor dynasty. She was the wife
of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII.
Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she
was a woman. She is one of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses
and the Tudor dynasty. In youth, she was relegated from a pampered princess
to a bastard fugitive under siege in sanctuary. Yet the probable murders
of her brothers, the Princes in the Tower, left her heiress to the royal
House of York. In 1486, to consolidate his position after overthrowing
the last Yorkist King, Richard III, at the Battle of Bosworth, Henry
VII, first sovereign of the House of Tudor, married Elizabeth, thus
uniting the red and white roses of Lancaster and York. The marriage
was successful and produced seven children, including the future Henry
VIII, who was close to her.
But Elizabeth is an enigma. She had schemed to marry Richard III, the
man who had deposed and killed her brothers, and his councillors clearly
feared her vengeance. Yet after marriage, her ambition to be queen satisfied,
a different picture emerges, as she proved herself a model consort,
mild, pious, generous, fruitful — and beautiful. It has often been
said that she was kept in subjection by Henry VII and her powerful mother-in-la-
w, Margaret Beaufort, who ruled the court as a virtual queen mother;
and that her husband resented having this Yorkist princess in his bed,
and allowed her no power. Yet contemporary evidence suggests that this
is a distorted view.
In Elizabeth of York, Alison Weir builds a portrait of this beloved
queen, placing her in the context of the magnificent, ceremonious, often
brutal world she inhabited, and revealing the woman behind the image.-
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