But she is never a likable character - and there is plenty of blood in the final chapters of the infamous Cousins’ War (War of the Roses) as England is torn apart in the quest for the throne.įrom this long conflict between the houses of Lancaster and York - the red rose and the white - great myths have evolved: Warwick, the Kingmaker, who put Edward IV on the throne then betrayed him the disputed reign of Richard III (made evil and crook-backed in Shakespeare), who claimed the throne after the deaths of his brothers and the uncertain fate of the princes in the Tower and the triumph of Henry VII, who finally trades blows on a blood-drenched battlefield and joins the houses of York and Lancaster in his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville’s daughter. Ironically, as the mother of the Duke of Richmond, Henry VII, Beaufort is right in the end, justified in all her prayers and certitude of God’s will. Interesting that Gregory names Margaret Beaufort “The Red Queen.” The mother of Henry VII, Beaufort is bloodless and cold as the stone of a statue of the Virgin Mary, so sure in her convictions as a child of ten that she will not be swayed by reason or passion in her pursuit of destiny. Book review: Philippa Gregory's *The Red Queen (The Cousins' War)*
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