Succession

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'In Succession Livi Michael engages meticulously with the diverse
historical accounts of the Wars of the Roses, but she also invests
intimate and poignant humanity into the personal tragedies of an era
wrought with conflict and terror.' Elizabeth Fremantle, author of
Queen's GambitBehind the bloody battle scenes of the Wars of the Roses lie the sinewy political skills of a remarkable pair of women.Margaret
of Anjou, French, beautiful, unpopular; her marriage in 1444 to a young
Henry VI causes national uproar. As English rule in France collapses,
Henry goes insane, civil war erupts, and families are pitted against
each other. With Henry VI incapacitated, Margaret Anjou is left to fight
alone for her son's position as rightful heir. Meanwhile
Margaret Beaufort, nobly born but far more distant from the throne,
becomes a great heiress while only an infant. Her childhood is lived in
echoing remote castles and she is lonely and vulnerable: everyone at
Henry's court competes to be her guardian and to engineer an
advantageous alliance through marriage to her. By the age of thirteen,
she has married twice and given birth to her only son - the future King
of England. But then she is separated from him . . . and her fight
really begins Succession is the intense and powerful story of the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty.