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Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I found it a powerful and well written story, and was very pleased to have the opportunity to read and review it.Īlison Weir is a historian with a deep knowledge and understanding of the Tudor period. She emerges as more than just a figurehead, a marriageable pawn, but a woman who had to take action from a young age. ![]() This is a story which focuses on Elizabeth from her childhood and many of the challenges she faced, her mixed fortunes and her losses, her loves and actions. Not that in this political marriage Henry was rendered totally secure on the throne there were those who rose against him, sometimes claiming to represent the lost Princes in the Tower, the younger brothers of Elizabeth that were much missed. She was nonetheless the mother of the famous or infamous Henry VIII, and her marriage to Henry VII brought to an end most of the separation between the Houses of York and Lancaster. Elizabeth of York, daughter of a King, sister of a tragically short lived one, and wife to a third, has often been dismissed as merely a wife for political reasons who was caught up by circumstances and stronger characters. Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose by Alison WeirĪ new series of novels featuring three generations of the Tudors is an enormous treat for fans of historical fiction, and this portrait of a woman, a “Mother, Survivor, Queen” is as carefully and vividly written as any of Weir’s other novels. ![]()
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