![]() ![]() ![]() Weir is a prolific and accomplished biographer, with an inexhaustible passion for history that has its origins in her early teenage years. At last, the significance of this enigmatic woman has been acknowledged by historian Alison Weir in her latest biography, Elizabeth of York: a Tudor Queen and Her World. Yet Elizabeth was a popular consort who wielded subtle power, and at times exercised considerable influence at court. After her death, Elizabeth’s son Henry VIII and her grandson Edward VI would do the same. Had royal women born in fifteenth century England been granted equal succession rights to their male counterparts, a discrimination rectified as recently as 2011, then Elizabeth of York (1466-1503), eldest child of Edward IV, would have been crowned Elizabeth I decades before her granddaughter became ‘The Virgin Queen’.Īs it was, she looked on dutifully as first her brother, and then her uncle and finally her husband occupied the throne during her lifetime. National Emerging Writer Programme Overview. ![]()
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