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The true story of the White Queen and more, this is a thrilling history of the extraordinary noblewomen who lived through the Wars of the Roses. After archaeologists unearthed the remains of Richard III in a Leicester carpark, his pivotal era is once again ripe for valuation. The events of the Wars of the Roses are usually described in terms of the men involved: Richard Duke of York, Henry VI, Edward IV and Henry VII. But the reality, as Sarah Gristwood shows, was very different. These years were also packed with women's drama and – in the tales of conflicted marriages and monstrous births – simmering with female politics. In this completely original retelling, acclaimed author Sarah Gristwood sheds light on a neglected dimension of English history: the impact of Tudor women on the cataclysmic civil war. She examines Cecily Neville, the wife of Richard Duke of York, who was deprived of being queen when her husband died at the Battle of Wakefield; Elizabeth Woodville, a widow with...

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