Now Elizabeth must choose her allies - and husband - wisely, and fight for her right to rule. Marriage to this Henry Tudor would unite the white rose of York and the red of Lancaster - and change everything.Ī great new age awaits. Then her uncle seizes power - and vows to make Elizabeth his queen.īut another claimant seeks the throne, the upstart son of the rival royal House of Lancaster. Two young princes are murdered in the Tower. But when her beloved father, King Edward, dies suddenly, her destiny is rewritten. History has the best stories and they should all be told like this' CONN IGGULDENĪN ENGLISH PRINCESS, BORN INTO A WAR BETWEEN TWO FAMILIES.Įldest daughter of the royal House of York, Elizabeth dreams of a crown to call her own. This is where the story of the Tudors begins and is historical fiction at its absolute best' TRACY BORMAN Elizabeth was the eldest child of King Edward IV of the royal House of York. It is a novel rather than a biography, thereby enabling the author to fill in gaps between known facts about the woman who became the first Tudor Queen.

'Alison Weir gives us her most compelling heroine yet. Elizabeth of York, The Last White Rose, is the first book in a new trilogy by historian Alison Weir. This is the spellbinding, untold story of Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor queen. Historian Alison Weir has done the world a huge service by recreating the lives of Henry VIIIs wives by means of a historical novel about each of them. Brand-new historical fiction from the author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series.

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