Misha Glenny and guests discuss the woman who, as a child bride, became mother to the boy who would eventually become the first king in the Tudor dynasty. Lady Margaret Beaufort (c1443-1509) was ...
England’s most notorious dynasty owes much to the trials of a 13-year-old girl: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. On , the young widow—her first husband, Edmund Tudor, had died ...
Step into the turbulent heart of the Wars of the Roses and meet one of history’s most formidable survivors: Lady Margaret Beaufort. A child bride, a teenage mother, and ultimately the mastermind ...
Today, you would be hard-pressed to find any visible evidence that Collyweston village in Northamptonshire was once home to a palace presided over by Henry VIII’s grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort.
MSN: Margaret Beaufort was the woman behind the Tudor dynasty—and she killed for power
Margaret Beaufort was the woman behind the Tudor dynasty—and she killed for power
The Conversation: How Henry VIII’s grandmother used a palace in Northamptonshire to build the mighty Tudor dynasty
How Henry VIII’s grandmother used a palace in Northamptonshire to build the mighty Tudor dynasty
Margaret Beaufort was never queen, even uncrowned, but her only child became Henry VII when he defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485, and Nicola Tallis, a British scholar and the author of a ...
History would be a much more boring place without Margaret Beaufort. Without her, we’d never have two of the most famous monarchs in history, King Henry VIII and his daughter, Queen Elizabeth I. Those ...