she was the daughter of two very powerful and forceful parents Edward IV and Elizabeth. In spite of the author's claims I did not really share her assumption about the extent of Elizabeth of York's influence. Well, wouldn't recommend this book for the subject - but might be OK if you were looking for general information around that time and can suffer the tedium!!! I also got the impression that Maggie Marsh was probably just as fed up reading it by the dull set tones of her voice - but she did her best with the subject. A real shame, as I so thoroughly enjoyed The Wives of Henry the Eighth. The book was tediously long for very little information on Elizabeth of York, making it a pretty pointless book for me. Even more irritating was the monetary valuation being recalculated into "being worth £(an obscene amount) today" at every mention of what was paid out to ladies, jesters, dress makers, and for fabrics, food, soap and just about anything to make up page numbers (it drove me potty!!!).
I'm guessing that Elizabeth Weir needed to write a book of more than 5 pages, which is probably all you would get from factual knowledge of her and so the book is made up of irritating guesses, maybes, would have, perhapses and merely conjectures. (Dec.There is very clearly little to write about Elizabeth of York - with the exceptions of maybes and perhaps(es).
Agent: Julian Alexander, Lucas Alexander Whitley (U.K.). Weir argues her positions clearly and, in balancing the scholarly with emphases on Elizabeth’s emotional and psychological life, she should reach a wider audience than traditional histories. Weir, an authority on 15th- and 16th-century English history, revises some of her previous thinking regarding the fate of the princes in the Tower of London, but the major focus is Elizabeth’s life, portrayed in great detail, from marriage ceremonies and royal itineraries to the food, books, gifts, and clothing of her day. Betrothed to the Dauphin of France at age 11, Elizabeth was-after the death of her father in 1483-even rumored to be a possible match for Richard III, usurper of Edward V’s throne and responsible for the murder of Elizabeth’s two younger brothers. Weir (Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings) conveys how, as a royal princess, Elizabeth was a pawn in the dynastic ambitions of England’s rulers: her father, Edward IV her uncle, Richard III her mother-in-law, Margaret Beaufort and her husband, Henry VII, whose claim to the English throne was inferior to her own. Best known as the mother of Henry VIII, Elizabeth of York (1466–1503) is also the ancestor of the English, Scots, and British monarchies that commenced in 1509, 1513, and 1603, respectively.
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