As a collective, the lives of the Princesses of York span across
seven decades and the rule of five different Kings. The daughters
of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, they were born into an
England that had been ruled over by the great Plantagenet Kings for
almost three hundred years. Their young years were blighted by
tragedy: the death of their beloved father, followed by the
disappearance and possible murder of their two brothers, Edward and
Richard of York, forever now known to history as the infamous
Princes in the Tower. With their own futures uncertain during the
reign of their uncle, Richard III, and their mother held under
house arrest, the Princesses had to navigate their way through the
tumultuous years of the 1480s before having to adjust to a new King
and a new dynasty in the shape of Henry VII, who would bring about
the age of the Tudors. Through her marriage to Henry, Elizabeth of
York rebuilt her life, establishing herself as a popular, if not
hugely influential Queen. But she did not forget her younger
siblings, and even before her own mother's death, she acted as a
surrogate mother to the younger York princesses, supporting them
both financially and emotionally. The stories of the York
Princesses are entwined into the fabric of the history of England,
as they grew up, survived and even thrived in the new Tudor age.
Their lives are played out against a backdrop of coronations and
jousts, births and deaths, marriages and divorces and loyalties and
broken allegiances. From the usurpation of Richard III, to the
Battle of Bosworth, the brilliance of the court of Catherine of
Aragon and Henry VIII, to the rise of Anne Boleyn, the York
Princesses were there to witness events unfold. They were the
daughters, sisters and aunts of Kings, and this is their story. The
York Princesses is a natural follow-up to Sarah J. Hodder's first
book, The Queen's Sisters, which told the stories of the lives of
the sisters of Elizabeth Woodville.
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