Lady Beaufort is an extremely unlikeable character.
But Margaret has God on her side, and she will see her son on the throne, and nothing – not Queen Elizabeth’s witchcraft, her husband’s desire for a quiet life, or the sons of York – will prevent her from becoming Margaret Regina, the King’s Mother. But the House of Lancaster is in decline her cousin is now a former King, deposed by Edward IV, severing Margaret’s claim to the throne. She becomes determined to see her son Henry Tudor on the throne of England, and with his uncle Jasper raises him as a young prince. By the time she’s fourteen, Margaret is mother to a son, Henry, and a widow. At the tender age of twelve, she marries Edmund Tudor, an ‘old man’ at twenty-four, and is shipped off to live in isolation in Wales. The trouble is that no one else – not her mother, not her cousin the King, and certainly not her future husband – perceive her near-divine status. A religious zealot from a young age, she’s convinced that she will one day be a great saint, like Joan of Arc, destined to save the English in their time of need.
Margaret Beaufort is of the House of Lancaster, and in line to inherit the throne. Sequel to The White Queen, reviewed in August 2009
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