Anne Easter Smith
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Daughter of York
Daughter of York re-visits
many of the characters from A Rose for the Crown, as we follow
Margaret, sister of Edward IV and Richard III, from the court of
England where, as a pawn in Edward's political schemes, she is kept
single until she is 22, when a Burgundian alliance is forged through
her marriage to Charles the Bold, the new Duke of Burgundy.
Despite
fulfilling her duty to her new country with intelligence and aplomb,
Margaret never forgets she is an English princess and a daughter of the
House of York. Her homesickness is exacerbated by having to leave
behind the love of her life. Fate brings them together rarely after she
becomes duchess to a man she only met a week before her marriage, and
whom she discovers suffers from such a grandiose view of his place in
history that he is capable of great cruelty towards anyone who stands
in his way. He also prefers spending time on a battlefield than at home
with his wife. She finds solace in the bond she forges with her new
young stepdaughter, her friendship with William Caxton, learning to
rule her new country, and her unusual confidante, a dwarf named
Fortunata. But once in a while, she breaks the rules in the arms of her
one true love...
Margaret
is a woman of her time, but she might also be a woman of ours. Had she
been born a man in England in the time of the Wars of the Roses, she
would have made a memorable king.
In 2005, the town of Mechelen in Belgium, where Margaret spent many of her later years, honored her and one of Charles the Bold's granddaughters, another Margaret, in a six-month exhibition acknowledging the role of these two indomitable women born in the 15th century and rulers of Burgundy. The town of Bruges still celebrates Margaret's wedding parade every five years, as the Pageant of the Golden Tree.
Despite
fulfilling her duty to her new country with intelligence and aplomb,
Margaret never forgets she is an English princess and a daughter of the
House of York. Her homesickness is exacerbated by having to leave
behind the love of her life. Fate brings them together rarely after she
becomes duchess to a man she only met a week before her marriage, and
whom she discovers suffers from such a grandiose view of his place in
history that he is capable of great cruelty towards anyone who stands
in his way. He also prefers spending time on a battlefield than at home
with his wife. She finds solace in the bond she forges with her new
young stepdaughter, her friendship with William Caxton, learning to
rule her new country, and her unusual confidante, a dwarf named
Fortunata. But once in a while, she breaks the rules in the arms of her
one true love... Margaret
is a woman of her time, but she might also be a woman of ours. Had she
been born a man in England in the time of the Wars of the Roses, she
would have made a memorable king.In 2005, the town of Mechelen in Belgium, where Margaret spent many of her later years, honored her and one of Charles the Bold's granddaughters, another Margaret, in a six-month exhibition acknowledging the role of these two indomitable women born in the 15th century and rulers of Burgundy. The town of Bruges still celebrates Margaret's wedding parade every five years, as the Pageant of the Golden Tree.