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Many are acquainted with the story of the much-married King Henry VIII of Great britain and the celebrated reign of his princess, Elizabeth I. But it is often overlooked that the life span of the first Tudor queen, Elizabeth of York, Henry's mom and Elizabeth's grandmother, spanned one of Great britain' s most dramatic and perilous cycles. Now New York Times best-selling writer and acclaimed historian Alison Weir presents the first modern biography of this extraordinary girl, whose very living united the world and made certain the success of the Plantagenet bloodline. Her labor and birth was greeted with just as much pomp and wedding ceremony as that of a guy heir. The first child of King Edward IV, Elizabeth savored all the glittering trappings of royalty. But following the death of her dad; the disappearance and probable murder of her brothers - the Princes in the Tower; and the usurpation of the throne by her calculating uncle, Richard III, Elizabeth found her world changed upside-down: She and her siblings were announced bastards. As Richard's wife, Anne Neville, was dying, there were murmurs that the ruler sought to marry his niece Elizabeth, realizing that most people assumed her to be England's rightful queen. Weir addresses Elizabeth's possible role in this and her covert support for Henry Tudor, the exiled pretender who defeated Richard at the Struggle of Bosworth and was crowned Henry VII, first sovereign of the home of Tudor. Elizabeth's subsequent matrimony to Henry united the homes of York and Lancaster and signaled the finish of the Wars of the Roses. For years and years historians have asserted that, as queen, she was maintained under Henry's strong knowledge, but Weir implies that Elizabeth proved to be a model consort - pious and large - who savored the confidence of her hubby, exerted a tangible and beneficial effect, and was revered by her kid, the future King Henry VIII.
