![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it’s much harder to be sure of where she stood over the traumatic events of her life – the decision of one of her sons, Edward IV, to execute another son, Clarence and the decision of her youngest son Richard III to take the throne from his nephews, her grandsons. We know she was a beauty, a forceful and tempestuous personality, a woman who turned from a life of luxury to one of extraordinary piety. That said, the one who intrigued me most was Margaret’s mother (and Anne Neville’s great-aunt, as well as mother-in-law) Cecily Neville. If I had to be stuck on a desert island with one, I’d pick Margaret of Burgundy any day. How much you can tell varies from character to character, but in six out of the seven about whom I write, I’d say you can tell quite a lot – Anne Neville being the exception, maybe! Of the seven, the one to whom I most warmed was Margaret ‘of Burgundy’ (born Margaret of York sister to Edward IV and Richard III), for all that some contempory – Tudor – chroniclers wrote of her spitefully. ![]() How much can you tell about the personality of these women, and do you have a favourite – someone you would like to know more about or spend time with? ![]()
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