The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother

Philippa Gregory
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In the murderous medieval power struggle known as the Wars of the Roses, three formidable women were key Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, and the Tudor matriarch Margaret Beaufort. Bestselling author Phillippa Gregory teams up with two leading historians of the period to explore the real lives of these women, who loom large in her popular Cousins' War series of historical novels, bringing to life an extraordinary saga of ambition, intrigue, witchcraft and murder.
Genres: HistoryNonfictionBiographyHistoricalBritish LiteratureTudor PeriodRoyaltyMedieval15th CenturyWomens
335 Pages

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