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Queens At War
QUEENS AT WAR: THE FOURTH BOOK IN ALISOBN WEIR'S ENGLAND'S MEDIEVAL QUEENS QUARTET
The fifteenth century was a turbulent age and each of the five queens who appear in this book were caught up in wars that changed the courses of their lives: the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses, between the royal Houses of Lancaster and York. Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI all married to seal a peace with France. Edward IV married - scandalously - for love, Richard III to gain gtreat estates. Of their respective wives, Joan of Navarre was imprisoned as a witch; Katherine of Valois, who brought her husband the French crown, later married her wardrobe master and became the ancestress of the Tudors; Margaret of Anjou fought a civil war on her weak husband's behalf; Elizabeth Wydeville lived to see her sons, the Princes in the Tower, disappear from history; and Anne Neville died after lising her only child, forsaken by her husband. Theirs are stirring stories of triumph and tragedy, love and loss, murder and malice.
