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The House of Beaufort
- The Bastard Line That Captured the Crown
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The Wars of the Roses were a tumultuous period in English history, with family fighting family over the greatest prize in the kingdom—the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the crown? What made his Beaufort mother the great heiress of medieval England, and how exactly did an illegitimate line come to challenge the English monarchy?
While the Houses of York and Lancaster fought brutally for the crown, other noble families of the kingdom also played integral roles in the wars, but none symbolized the volatile nature of the period quite like the House of Beaufort. Their rise, fall, and rise again is the story of England during the fifteenth century, a dramatic century of war, intrigue, and scandal both at home and abroad.
This book uncovers the rise of the Beauforts and tracks their fall during the 1460s and 1470s. The hopes and fortunes of the family gradually came to rest upon the shoulders of a teenage widow named Margaret Beaufort and her young son Henry. From Margaret would rise the House of Tudor, the most famous of all England's royal houses and a dynasty that owed its crown to the blood of its forebears, the House of Beaufort. From bastards to princes, the Beauforts are medieval England's most captivating family.
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- S.Attenborough
- 28-04-2023
Book Full of Special Pleadings
Via this book we are meant to see the Beauforts as near to saints as one could get and that is neither historical or factual.
Another annoyance is the narrator’s mispronunciation of very well known places particularly in France.
Lastly, the narrator practically whispers in some parts and shouts in others! There is no need to read primary documents like town crier and treating the listener like a silly!
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