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The Kingmaker’s Daughter

by Philippa Gregory Book 5 in the The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels series.

First published 2012

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4.4(7,921)

Anne Neville and her sister Isabel are raised as the daughters and potential heirs of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick. Their father’s break with Edward IV turns their marriages into instruments in his attempt to control the English succession.

After Warwick and Anne’s first husband die in the wars, she marries Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Her rise to queen beside Richard III is shadowed by rivalry, the disappearance of the princes and fear for the survival of her only child.

Historical Periods

Yorkist England1461–1485 CE Battle of Tewkesbury1471 CE Princes in the Tower1483 CE

Genres

Biographical Fiction Court & Political Fiction Historical Sagas War Fiction

Historical people

Richard III1452–1485 Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick1428–1471 Anne Neville1456–1485

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