![]() ![]() These years were also packed with women's drama and - in the tales of conflicted maternity and monstrous births - alive with female energy. The reality though, argues Sarah Gristwood, was quite different. ![]() The events of the Wars of the Roses are usually described in terms of the men involved Richard, Duke of York, Henry VI, Edward IV and Henry VII. It is a fiery history of Queens, the perils of power and of how the Wars of the Roses were ended - not by knights in battle, but the political and dynastic skills of women. From best-selling historian, Sarah Gristwood comes the true story behind Philippa Gregory's recent novels - the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty. ![]() ![]()
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