Friday, 5 October 2018
...and further history...
The next book is"White Queen", which is the story of Elizabeth Woodville-daughter of Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
She fell in love with the young King Edmund (although the people of that time say it is through witchcraft), secretly marries him and after strengthening his position in the state, the king brings his wife to the castle, and with her, her whole, big family.
The Queen, with her introduction to the castle, begins to look for good parties for her sisters and brothers, so that in the event of danger she may have family support.
This is not liked by people at the court at the time, because they believe that the queen rules the country from behind the throne of the king, and the king does not argue.
All the conspiracies, rumours and alleged spells of the queen and her mother.
But the life of kings is not littered with roses, and it is after the sudden death of King Elizabeth that he hides with his daughters in the church's underground. His older son is being held by his uncle in the Tower, and his young son goes abroad in the night.
But this is just a book version because the historian really does not know what happened to the princes in the Tower.
The next part of this series is"The kingmaker`s daughter".
This is the story of one of the daughters of the most powerful man of that time, Richard Nevill, who once fought with Edmund from York against Margaret of Anjou, and then turned against him and put his brother and his daughter on his throne, and later to unite with Margaret of Anjou and to put her son on the throne with her other daughter.
Unfortunately, he failed to do any of these things because Edmund, who was his mentee, learned his strategy well from his cousin and defeated him.
Anna, after an unfortunate marriage to Prince Edward, quickly becomes widows and gets under the care of her sister, who considers her a traitor and makes her unhappy.
The girl is lucky because the younger brother of the king falls in love with her and helps her escape.
After many years, she manages to implement her father's plan and becomes the queen of England, not for long, but still.
She died a few months after the death of her only son on March 16, 1485, on the day when the total solar eclipse occurred.
Another woman who played her role in the war of roses can be found in the book "The Red Queen".
We will find here a woman fighting for her beliefs that her son should become the next king.
Margaret Beaufort, the forgotten founder of the Tudor family.
Being a thirteen-year-old girl, she is married to a man twice as old as her and quickly widows, but from her marriage, a boy-Henry Tudor was born.
Today, we could say that she was a devotee who was always kneeling in the church and convinced that God had chosen her son as king of England.
She sends his son along with his uncle abroad and conspires herself, and despite unfavourable times and for the price of everything, she wants to put his son on the throne.
And she manages to do so even though she must have been able to commit crimes and marry her son with the daughter of Elizabeth Woodville, who she hated.
And all this to satisfy her ambitions so she can sign her letters with Margaret Regina incantations.
And the last book in this series is "The White Princess".
The eldest daughter of King Edmund and Elizabeth Woodville, who is in love with his king Richard and plans a wedding together, but unfortunately the king dies on the battlefield and Henry Tudor sits on the throne and it is Elizabeth who must give her hand.
She hates her husband, hates her mother-in-law, does not agree with what is happening to her mother, but humbly accepts her role, gives birth to her son and other children. In time she even falls in love with her husband.
But as we already know, happiness does not last forever and a rival appears who claims to be one of the lost princes from Tower and her brother.
This is not an easy time for the princess, the more that her cousin and pretender to the throne, which could threaten Henry is imprisoned in the Tower and for many years at the urging of his cousin trying to free the cousin.
Unfortunately, she fails to save her brother and cousin who was beheaded, and her eldest son, Artur, declines to die a few months after married with a Spanish princess and he dies.
Although the court ladies and queens did not have much to do but get well married and have a son, they also had great ambitions and even bigger ones than their husbands or sons.
I invite you to explore history, because it really is impressive and full of secrets, and who does not like to read is invited to watch the films from the series "White Queen" and "White Princess".
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