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The Other Tudor Princess brings to life the story of Margaret Douglas, a shadowy and mysterious character in Tudor history - but who now takes centre stage in this tale of the bitter struggle for power during the reign of Henry VIII. Margaret is Henry's beloved niece, but she defies the king by indulging in two scandalous affairs and is imprisoned in the Tower of London on three occasions 'not for matters of treason, but for love'. Yet, when Henry turns against his second wife Anne Boleyn and declares his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, bastards, it is Margaret he appoints as his heir to the throne. The arrangement of the marriage of Margaret's son, Lord Darnley, to his cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots unites their claim to the throne and infuriates Queen Elizabeth. Yet this match brings tragedy, as Margaret's son is brutally murdered. As Margaret reaches old age, her place in the dynasty is still not safe, and she dies in mysterious circumstances - was Margaret poisoned on the orders of Queen Elizabeth?Mary McGrigor tells this compelling and exciting part of Tudor history for the first time with all the passion and thrill of a novel, but this is no fiction - the untold story runs through the course of history, and Margaret secured the throne for her Stuart ancestors for years to come. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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That should be all the review you need, but I will clarify a little. This is a 220 page book, yet it has a bibliography less than a page and a half long: 12 primary sources and 21 secondary sources -- some of them extremely secondary, e.g. the Encyclopedia Britannica and A. R. Myers's 1952 England in the Later Middle Ages (the latter a perfectly good book, but I have the 1971 edition -- much newer than McGrigor's, note) -- and the index never mentions Margaret Douglas!). There are very few sources here which give a detailed look at the middle sixteenth century.
Similarly, there are endnotes, but (if I counted correctly) only 124. For a 220 page book. Most of the statements here are completely unsupported. And either conjectural or unsupported -- e.g. take this statement on p. 40: "Together they [Margaret Douglas and Princess Mary Tudor, the future Mary I] talked of their ambitions, of their hopes of finding suitors and, inevitably, as most girls do, of the so far hidden joys of sex and of whom, in their own young opinions, were the most desirable and dashing men at court."
No footnote on that statement, of course. But I would note that McGrigor has no source for the thoughts of either Margaret or Mary, and that Mary, as Henry VIII's heir apparent, knew she wasn't going to have any real choice of spouse. And, remember, this is Bloody Mary, the Catholic fanatic, who was not exactly the apple of her father's eye.
I won't belabor this. If you don't need your history to be accurate, but just want it to be exciting, this may interest you. (Personally, I need the facts, to try to figure out other historical facts.) Certainly Margaret Douglas -- the second child of Henry VIII's older sister Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, and hence a potential heir to the English throne, as well as the mother of Henry Lord Darnley, the future husband of Mary Queen of Scots -- is well worth a book. But because she's worth a book, it would be nice if it were a reliable book. ( )