Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World, (Paperback)

from LizzieD

Alison Weir's Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World is not a biography for a casual reader. Weir has done meticulous research, and she apparently makes every bit of it available. While the broad outlines of Elizabeth's life are verifiable, not enough of her letters or other writing survi...

from Azkate24

Elizabeth of York is well written and researched extensively, but despite all of the effort there is still much that is unknown about this fine woman. The book leaves much to conjecture and "guessing" what her thoughts and feelings may have been... There remains an elusive Elizabeth that we will ...

from Christiana5

I received this book from the Early Reviewers program. Elizabeth was the daughter, niece, wife, mother, and grandmother of kings and queens, and had a solid claim to have ruled in her own right in more enlightened times, and is an ancestor of today's British royal family. Ms. Weir pieces together...

from KellyHewitt

First and foremost I commend Alison Weir for her ability to draw in Tudor historical enthusiasts by giving them a starting point to begin exploring their interest in Henry VIII, the Plantagenet princes in the Tower of London and further back to figures like Eleanor of Aquitaine. Weir's body of wo...

from cyderry

The War of the Roses - House of York with its white rose and the House of Lancaster with its red rose - was brought to an end when Henry Tudor married Elizabeth of York. Elizabeth was the oldest daughter of Edward IV of York while Henry Tudor was the only son of Margaret Beaufort of Lancaster. Th...