Margaret Beaufort: survivor, rebel, kingmaker

Dramatis personae

Map

Family trees

Prologue. Money, time and distance ; Names and titles

[PART] I. 'Mother of the king's great rebel and traitor'

1. 'The stain of so great a disgrace'

2. 'Right studious she was in books'

3. 'By whom she was made mother'

4. 'Mine entirely beloved wife'

5. 'The way of life of the wise princess'

6. 'Brittle fortune'

7. 'Rule the king'

8. 'Live and die with him'

9. 'Now fell there mischiefs thick'

10. 'Woe is that realm that hath a child to their king'

11. 'The head of that conspiracy'

12. 'Unnatural subjects'

13. 'Die as a king or win'

[PART] II. 'High and mighty princess'

14. 'High and mighty princess the mother of the king'

15. 'Rejoice for both roses'

16. 'A certain spurious lad'

17. 'All our sweet children'

18. 'A believable fiction'

19. 'Wisdom to fear'

[PART] III. 'Altera securitas'

20. 'According to her own design'

21. 'All that God has given me'

22. 'A manifold grief'

23. 'Blessed are the dead'

24. 'Change of worlds'

25. 'More precious than gold'

26. 'Smoke and shadow'

27. 'A golden world'

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes

Select bibliography

Image credits

Index.