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michellel123 's review for:
The Red Queen
by Philippa Gregory
After first aspiring to be a nun or a martyr in the vein of Joan of Arc, a young Margaret Beaufort has her plans changed when she is married to a much older Tudor cousin at 12 and has a young son who has a very strong claim for the throne. Her ambition - and God's will as she sees it - then becomes to put him on the throne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jasper Tudor. Taking place at the same time as the events in The White Queen, it was interesting to imagine from the other perspective. Enjoyable but I found Margaret a bit hard to relate to - too single minded and arrogant in her belief that her own ambitions were God's will, even when confronted by her husbands.