review by Maggie Perkovic on recorded show december 2011
This author is always worth a read, it is well written and exciting
The story is of Jacquetta Duchess of Luxembourg, mother of Elizabeth Woodwille who was the White Queen in her previous book. Jacquetta is married at 16 years of age to the Duke of Bedford Regent of France, and on his death she marries Richard Woodville for love, going on the have 14 children!!!
Despite being involved in the dreadful Plantagenet wars she and her husband survive and still remain loyal to the Queen, Margaret of Anjou and Henry V1, a gentle King who was unable to rule as he should, and spent hours in the chapel!!!
The story is told so well the reader is drawn in to the machinations of government, the suffering of both peer and peasant, and in particular of Jacquetta and her family. Her daughter Elizabeth goes on to marry Edward the 1V whose own daughter eventually is mother to Henry V111 so a lot of history is involved in the story. Warmly recommended. I loved it.
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