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Engeland, 1453. Margaretha Beaufort, erfgename van de Rode Roos, symbool van het Huis van Lancaster, is er heilig van overtuigd dat haar familie is voorbestemd om Engeland te regeren. Maar haar neef wordt gek, haar vader is de slechtste legercommandant aller tijden en haar moeder huwelijkt haar als dertienjarige uit aan een veel oudere man in het afgelegen Wales. Toch laat Margaretha zich niet ontmoedigen. Ze wordt al snel weduwe en heeft vanaf dat moment nog maar één doel in haar leven: haar zoon op de troon krijgen.… (meer)
1453. Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor. HOuse of Lancaster. Pious. Fierce. Determined. Unwavering sense of destiny ruled by the will of God. If not a nun the Queen of England. Feigns loyalty to upserper King Richard III (Your). Masterminds great rebellion that leads to the murder of the Kin at the Battle of Bosworth. ( )
Set in the time of the Tudors, Margaret Beaufort is married off at an early age and is a mother by the time she is 14. A headstrong and pious woman who believes she should take inspiration from Joan of Arc and that her son is the true and only heir to the throne. She does not care for the fact that she is to "wed, bed and breed" (i.e. the only reason for her existence is to have children to perpetuate the line). She feels thwarted at every turn that people cant recognise her piety, brains and wealth but doesnt recognise that many of the faults she sees in others are also significant faults in herself. [return][return]This does cover a large swathe of English history where the houses of York and Tudor are constantly fighting to rule the country. It's less than 400 pages long and part of a trilogy that presumably covers the same time from different angles. As a stand alone book it's reasonable if a little lightweight. However I dont know that if the three stories were brought together in the same book that it would necessarily work better - it certainly wouldnt be able to be written in the same voice ( )
Set in the time of the Tudors, Margaret Beaufort is married off at an early age and is a mother by the time she is 14. A headstrong and pious woman who believes she should take inspiration from Joan of Arc and that her son is the true and only heir to the throne. She does not care for the fact that she is to "wed, bed and breed" (i.e. the only reason for her existence is to have children to perpetuate the line). She feels thwarted at every turn that people cant recognise her piety, brains and wealth but doesnt recognise that many of the faults she sees in others are also significant faults in herself. [return][return]This does cover a large swathe of English history where the houses of York and Tudor are constantly fighting to rule the country. It's less than 400 pages long and part of a trilogy that presumably covers the same time from different angles. As a stand alone book it's reasonable if a little lightweight. However I dont know that if the three stories were brought together in the same book that it would necessarily work better - it certainly wouldnt be able to be written in the same voice ( )
Margaret Beaufort couldn’t be more different from Elizabeth Woodville. Yet they are both Queens in their own right and helped to shape history. The Red Queen enforces that and without her encouragement it makes you wonder if the birth of the Tudor dynasty would of happened had it not been for her. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The light of the open sky is brilliant after the darkness of the inner rooms. I blink and hear the roar of many voices. But this is not my army calling for me, this whisper growing to a rumble is not their roar of attack, the drumming of their swords on shields. The rippling noise of linen in the wind is not my embroidered angels and lilies against the sky, but cursed English standards in the triumphant May breeze. This is a different sort of roar from our beloved hymns, this is a howl of people hungry for death: my death.
The light of the open sky is brilliant after the darkness of the inner rooms.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
"I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions nd doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R."
"This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina, Margaret R."
Engeland, 1453. Margaretha Beaufort, erfgename van de Rode Roos, symbool van het Huis van Lancaster, is er heilig van overtuigd dat haar familie is voorbestemd om Engeland te regeren. Maar haar neef wordt gek, haar vader is de slechtste legercommandant aller tijden en haar moeder huwelijkt haar als dertienjarige uit aan een veel oudere man in het afgelegen Wales. Toch laat Margaretha zich niet ontmoedigen. Ze wordt al snel weduwe en heeft vanaf dat moment nog maar één doel in haar leven: haar zoon op de troon krijgen.
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