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Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors
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| "In 1485, Henry Tudor triumphed over staggering odds to become the first Tudor King of England. His victory owed much to his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort ... She is remembered as a severe and shrewd woman ... But against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and passion, court intrigue and war, Tallis [reveals] a woman far more complicated and contradictory than our popular conception. Frequently stereotyped as overly pious and dour, [she could] be wildly extravagant and materialistic ... She was iron-willed, but it was her charm that ultimately was her greatest weapon--essential in ingratiating herself to Richard III at court even as she was planning to overthrow him by installing her son"-- |
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