Prominent historian and novelist Alison Weir reveals the true story Elizabeth of York, a key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who began life as a princess, spent her youth as a bastard fugitive, but finally married the first Tudor king and was the mother of Henry VIII. 'Weir is a fine writer with a wonderful gift for description.' Linda Porter, }Literary Review Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. Heiress to the royal House of York, she schemed to marry Richard III, the man who had deposed and probably killed her brothers, and it is possible that she then conspired to put Henry Tudor on the throne. This book is a portrait of this beloved queen.
