The last medieval queens of England were Margaret of Anjou,
Elizabeth Woodville, Anne Neville, and Elizabeth of York - four
very different women whose lives and queenship were dominated by
the Wars of the Roses. This book is not a traditional biography but
a thematic study of the ideology and
practice of queenship. It examines the motivations behind the
choice of the first English-born queens, the multi-faceted rituals
of coronation, childbirth, and funeral, the divided loyalties
between family and king, and the significance of a position at the
heart of the English power structure that
could only be filled by a woman. It sheds new light on the queens'
struggles to defend their children's rights to the throne, and
argues that ideologically and politically a queen was integral to
the proper exercise of mature kingship in this period.
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