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Elizabeth of York could have ruled England were she not a woman and were she not born in the fifteenth century. Oldest daughter of Edward IV, she was the heiress of the Yorkist dynasty after the death of Richard III at Bosworth (and her own younger brothers in the Tower of London). Henry VII, the first Tudor king and victor by conquest, had at best a tenuous claim to the English throne. He legitimised it by his marriage to Elizabeth and proclaimed it through the Tudor rose, that joining of the emblems of York and Lancaster. Elizabeth's marriage to Henry produced one of our most famous kings in Henry VIII.

If there is a problem with the book, it's that Weir has so little to work with. The sources are patchy and there really isn't enough for any historian worth his or her salt to draw any real conclusions. So there's a lot of speculation here; a great many ifs and buts and maybes.Those who already know something about the period will find their understanding fleshed out and will be able to form their own educated guesses about the truth of Elizabeth of York. But I wouldn't really recommend it as a first foray into the times because there just isn't enough meat to enable Elizabeth to rise from its pages in more than elusive glimpses at a person so crucial to English history. It's not Weir's fault; it's just the way it is. To those readers I would say: read more general works first and then return to this book. And for myself: I thoroughly enjoyed it. I knew I would.

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