Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen consort to Edward IV, has traditionally been portrayed as a scheming opportunist. But was she a cunning vixen or a tragic wife and mother? As this extraordinary biography shows, the first queen to bear the name Elizabeth lived a life of tragedy, love, and loss that no other queen has since endured. This shocking revelation about the survival of one woman through vilification and adversity shows Elizabeth as a beautiful and adored wife, distraught mother of the two lost Princes in the Tower, an and innocent queen slandered by politicians.
Liked Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower Shares history, nonfiction, biography -
Richard the Third Shares history, nonfiction, biography -
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens Shares nonfiction, history, biography -
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty Shares nonfiction, history, biography
“People who read Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen tend to reach for these next.”
“If you want more of the same (history), start with these.”
“If it was the wars of the roses that hooked you, try one of these.”
“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”
-
The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
-
Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
- One Thousand and One Nights, Volume 03
- The Women of the Wars of the Roses: Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth of York