Ruth S. Perot
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This novel, The Red Queen, covers England's War of the Roses, 1444-1475. Fascinating characters abound in that period. There are, in addition to Marga
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ret, who was married at age 14: Henry VI, her husband, who was 'fitter for a cowl than a crown.'
Cardinal Beaufort, who pushed the marriage.
The Duke of Gloucester, who opposed it.
Warwick the Kingmaker, Margaret's greatest enemy.
The Yorkists and Lancastrians who tore England apart.
Margaret was a strong woman more suited to our own times than her own. Overlooked, it is time she is reintroduced as a heroine for today's readers.
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