Linda Porter
Tending the White Rose
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen
By Alison Weir
Jonathan Cape 556pp £20 order from our bookshop
Elizabeth of York was the first Tudor queen consort and played a crucial role in establishing the new dynasty, but she has been strangely overlooked by historians until now. The general impression has always been of a passive beauty who grew plump with child-bearing, was completely dominated by her overbearing mother-in-law, Margaret Beaufort, and was perhaps not entirely trusted by her husband, Henry VII, who had married her to bolster his hold on the throne of England.
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