What emerges in Alison Weir's highly recommended portrait - especially as her effort is enhanced by vivid and sometimes startling research - is a frequently complicated woman of contradictions, a sometimes seductive woman of mystery, and - as many, including the feckless Henry VII and the notorious Richard III, would find out - Elizabeth of York was a fiercely headstrong woman of sometimes baffling motivations.
Thursday, July 09, 2020
No shrinking violet …
… Morning’s Canvas: The paradoxes of a Tudor queen (2013).
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