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![]() ![]() Anne Neville is someone I knew practically nothing about, and it’s interesting to see how PG chooses to focus on people that have often been neglected during the course of history. I am a very big fan of Philippa Gregory’s novel, and this one certainly lived up to its expectations. ![]() Ultimately, the kingmaker’s daughter will achieve her father’s greatest ambition. Anne manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family and will cost the lives of those she loves most in the world, including her precious only son, Prince Edward. Married at age fourteen, she is soon left widowed and fatherless, her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. ![]() In this novel, her first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory explores the lives of two fascinating young women.Īt the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. The Kingmaker’s Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the “Kingmaker,” Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. ![]()
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