Elizabeth: England's Slandered Queen

✍ Scribed by Okerlund, Arlene

• Book ID: 108225231
• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1441474145

✦ Synopsis

Elizabeth Wydeville, Queen consort to Edward IV, has traditionally been portrayed as a scheming opportunist. But was she a cunning vixen or a tragic wife and mother? As this extraordinary biography shows, the first queen to bear the name Elizabeth lived a tragedy, love, and loss that no other queen has since endured. This shocking revelation about the survival of one woman through vilification and adversity shows Elizabeth as a beautiful and adored wife, distraught mother of the two lost Princes in the Tower, and an innocent queen slandered by politicians. “Elizabeth Wydeville, queen of Edward IV and grandmother of Henry VIII, has never enjoyed a very favorable reputation with contemporary chroniclers and historians; she is usually portrayed as an ice-cold beauty with a grasping streak who ensnared a king into marriage and advanced her rapacious family. Arlene Okerlund has produced a well-researched revisionist view of this much-vilified lady, sweeping away many oft-repeated myths. This is a fresh, thought-provoking and controversial reassessment that will not fail to stimulate and engross the reader.” – BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, Book of the Year 2005. “A penetrating, thorough, and wholly convincing vindication of this unlucky queen.” –SARAH GRISTWOOD, author of Arbella: England’s Lost Queen.