Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower

Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower
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Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman.From the start, Margaretâ€™s life had been marred by tragedy and violence: her father, George, Duke of Clarence, had been executed at the order of his own brother, Edward IV, and her naive young brother, Edward, Earl of Warwick, had spent most of his life in the Tower before being executed on the orders of Henry VII.Yet Margaret, friend to Katherine of Aragon and the beloved governess of her daughter Mary, had seemed destined for a happier fate until religious upheaval and rebellion caused Margaret and her family to fall from grace. From Margaretâ€™s birth as the daughter of a royal duke to her beatification centuries after her death, Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower tells the story of one of the fortressâ€™s most unlikely prisoners.
Country USA
Brand Amberley Publishing
Manufacturer Amberley Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 16 Plates, color
ReleaseDate 2018-07-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781445677156

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