Isabel Neville – The forgotten Duchess
Isabel Neville was born on 5 September 1451 at Warwick Castle as the elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker), and […]
Isabel Neville
Margaret Plantagenet – A traitor’s daughter (Part two)
Read part one here. Margaret threw herself into renovating and commissioning new residences, like Warblington Castle. From a later inventory, we know that over 73 […]
Margaret Plantagenet – A traitor’s daughter (Part one)
Margaret Plantagenet was born on 14 August 1473 at Farleigh Castle near Bath as the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville. Her […]
Anne Neville – A woman of “gracious fame” (Part two)
Read part one here. Then life changed on 9 April 1483 when King Edward IV died. He had named Richard Protector on his deathbed, and […]
Anne Neville – A woman of “gracious fame” (Part one)
Anne Neville was born on 11 June 1456 as the daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, also known as the Kingmaker, and Anne […]
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham Book Review
Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on […]