The Woodvilles av Susan Higginbotham

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<p><strong>In 1464, the most eligible bachelor in England, Edward IV, stunned the nation by revealing his secret marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, a beautiful, impoverished widow whose father and brother Edward himself had once ridiculed as upstarts.</strong> Edward¿s controversial match brought his queen¿s large family to court and into the thick of the Wars of the Roses.</p><p>This is the story of the family whose fates would be inextricably intertwined with the fall of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors: Richard, the squire whose marriage to a duchess would one day cost him his head; Jacquetta, mother to the queen and accused witch; Elizabeth, the commoner whose royal destiny would cost her three of her sons; Anthony, the scholar and jouster who was one of Richard III¿s first victims; and Edward, whose military exploits would win him the admiration of Ferdinand and Isabella.</p><p>Join bestselling novelist Susan Higginbotham as she draws on little-known material such as priv