tessaofthepnw 's review for:

Three Sisters, Three Queens by Philippa Gregory

2.0

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For the first 20% or so, Margaret Tudor is such a jealous, paranoid b****, more worried about keeping up with her sister in law Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England and her biological sister Mary Tudor, Queen of France in jewels, dresses, children and how they're treated by others than about anything that should matter to a Princess of England or the Queen of Scotland, especially considering what a learned man James IV is portrayed as here. She could have learned a lot from him and possibly kept her Regency easier than what she did. That jealousy never really goes away in the later 80% or so, though, she just gets concerns bigger than keeping up with the royal Jones', such as the death of her first husband (and bearing a grudge against the people she blames for his death) her remarriage to the Earl of Angus and the problems that brings and getting her son on the throne of Scotland. She's very hard to sympathize with as the story's sole narrator.