The King’s Curse

Philippa Gregory, the author who brought us Elizabeth the White Queen, Margaret the Red Queen, and made us fall in love with Anne Neville’s husband Richard III, now introduces us to Margaret Pole, countess of Salisbury.

Princess Margaret of York was niece of King Edward IV and King Richard III, but her life changed in 1485 when the Lancaster heir Henry Tudor came to the throne and ended Plantagenet rule. Her cousin, Elizabeth, the White Princess, married Henry while Margaret married Tudor supporter Henry Pole, before becoming lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon and lady governess to her daughter Mary.