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# Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good scholarly work on a great queen...
  

*by J***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014*

This is written by an excellent scholar, meticulously researched, and laid out in a good chronological order.  It can be a bit dry at times with reading about Elizabeth's accounts and charity work, but then again this is the evidence left to us about a wonderful queen 500 years ago.  The real interest is in her personal notes and letters to her family, friends and acquaintances.  Here is where we see the real woman.  One has to wonder how different the reign of her son, Henry VIII, would have been if Elizabeth had lived longer.  Not only was she an excellent queen, she was essentially a good person who was devoted to her family and lived a moral and religious life. She would have been outraged at her son's treatment of Katherine of Aragon.When one reads about Henry VII, Elizabeth's husband, who obviously suffered from paranoia, one is even more impressed by Elizabeth.  An outstanding administrator, he still must have been difficult to live with.  He was a Lancastrian raised from birth to hate anything Yorkist and the first years of their marriage must have been hair-raising to say the least.  Once they learned to trust each other, their marriage became an example of true wedded harmony.  Surely this couple was simply a gift from God to an England who had been torn asunder by decades if civil war.  Both were determined to give England domestic peace and raise her status as a formidable country of Europe.  Both played their parts to perfection because when Henry died, England was a wealthy and prosperous nation.  One has to be happy that they obviously came to love one another and to find some marital bliss in an era when that was exceedingly rare.  There is no evidence that either ever forsaken  their marital vows.  Although Henry made have looked in appreciation of some beautiful women at court, it seems he never touched.  When one compares that to the rampart sexuality practiced in his son's era, the marriage between Henry and Elizabeth becomes even more astonishing.  Good for them, they deserved it.The reigns of their son and granddaughter have clearly overshadowed them, but they truly have rights to claim that Henry VII and Elizabeth of York were the greatest Tudors of all.This book is an excellent study of a great queen who fulfilled her role and did her duty to the utmost for her time.  For those interested in Tudor history this is a must-read, but if your looking for an exciting historical novel, you are not going to find it here.  This is a well-researched work by a good scholar.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Queen of Hearts
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2015*

Elizabeth of York was like a hinge between the Plantagenets and the Tudors. Henry VII married her to strengthen his claim to the throne of England by conquest and yet he delayed both their wedding and her coronation in the attempt to assert it was his claim on the throne that mattered, not hers. (But it was really hers that mattered.)Haunting both Elizabeth's "reign" as Queen and Henry's rule as King were her little brothers, Edward V and Richard, the Duke of York. Richard III had bastardized all of Edward IV's children, including Elizabeth, in Parliament--claiming that Edward had a pre-existing marital contract--and had held Edward and Richard in the Tower of London. They were reportedly killed there by orders of Richard III, yet their remains had never been found. Henry VII tried to find them; Elizabeth, as Weir notes, must have always wondered what happened to her brothers, who came before, as males, in the line of succession.Weir introduces various other mysteries along the way through this biography: would Elizabeth really have wanted to marry Richard III? did Henry VII dislike Elizabeth's mother, Elizabeth Woodville? did Elizabeth and Margaret Beaufort, Henry's mother, get along or not? why did Queen Elizabeth of York go to Wales while pregnant and ill?, etc. She presents various pieces of evidence, analyzes their sources, presents her opinion, but ultimately leaves it to the reader to decide unless she is certain of the answer. At first--and she followed that process in another of her books I've read, "The Lady in the Tower", about the fall of Anne Boleyn--this process frustrated me because it seemed to interrupt the flow of the narrative. But I have grown to accept and appreciate her letting me in on the process of thinking about the past, disputed information, and sources.I recommend "Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen" to those who want to know more about the world of the Tudors as well as those who want to know more about Elizabeth. Alison Weir describes the structures and finances of the Tudor Court with vivid detail. Well illustrated. No index in the Kindle edition; I don't like not having an index!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Elizabeth of York
  

*by A***H on Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2023*

The book provides an in depth, well researched and always interesting story of a woman who had a hugely important role in English history. For readers who are looking for a biography with lots of history to be learned, this is a very enjoyable book about a lesser known English queen whose legacy survives into the present. I recommend this book.

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