When Richard III took the throne and Elizabeth’s brothers were taken to the tower the family had to make difficult decisions to ensure survival.
She and her siblings enjoyed the opulent surroundings of the many palaces her father kept, although suffered periods of imprisonment, albeit in comfortable surroundings, when Edward’s position was challenged or defeated.
The first half of the book covers the time before young Elizabeth’s marriage, aged nineteen, to King Henry VII. It did not help that Edward’s wife, Elizabeth Wydeville, exerted her considerable influence to promote members of her family to positions of power, leading to resentment among those from more established aristocratic families who regarded them as upstarts. The simmering rivalry between his kinsfolk, and those of the royal House of Lancaster, festered throughout his reign. Elizabeth was the eldest child of King Edward IV of the royal House of York. It is a novel rather than a biography, thereby enabling the author to fill in gaps between known facts about the woman who became the first Tudor Queen. Elizabeth of York, The Last White Rose, is the first book in a new trilogy by historian Alison Weir.
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