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The Red Queen

by Philippa Gregory

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Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her house is the true ruler of England and that she has a great destiny before her. Her ambitions are disappointed when her sainted cousin Henry VI fails to recognize her as a kindred spirit, and she is even more dismayed when he sinks into madness. Her mother mocks her plans, revealing that Margaret will always be burdened with the reputation of her father, one of the most famously incompetent English commanders in France. But worst of all for Margaret is when she discovers that her mother is sending her to a loveless marriage in remote Wales.

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...promise anything to me if I have a girl. I sigh and clasp my hands around his, as he seems to want me to do. Really, if it were not for Joan of Arc, I would think that girls are completely useless. JANUARY 1457 I go into confinement at the start of the month. They put up shutters on my bedroom windows to close out the gray winter light. I can't imagine that a sky which is never blue and a sun which never shines can be thought so distracting that a woman with child should be shaded from it; but the midwife insists that I go into darkness for a month before my time, as the tradition is, and Jasper, pale with worry, says that everything must be done to keep the baby safe. The midwife thinks that the baby will come early. She feels my belly and says that he is lying wrongly, but he may turn in time. Sometimes, she says, babies turn very late. It is important that they come out headfirst; I don't know why. She...

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All comments: 10

yunhokoko

15 Jan 2011 12:02:22

I love Philippa Gregory

happy

13 Jan 2011 14:25:48

Read the sypnosis.interested to read this

MtGal

12 Jan 2011 20:39:58

Can't wait to read this one."The Constant Princess" is very good.

M

25 Oct 2010 21:33:56

Good take on the "Princes in the Tower" story--one which I find to be more realistic than others. Philippa Gregory rarely disappoints and she doesn't break her streak with this one. A great read for a lazy afternoon!