The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors
She was pregnant at 12, widowed by the Wars of the Roses and almost died at the hands of Richard III. But nothing could prevent Margaret Beaufort from engineering the rise of her son
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She was pregnant at 12, widowed by the Wars of the Roses and almost died at the hands of Richard III. But nothing could prevent Margaret Beaufort from engineering the rise of her son
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