A Rose for the Crown

Name: A Rose for the Crown
Rating: 4.07 (5706 reviews)

by Anne Easter Smith Book 1 in the York Family Novels series.

First published 2006

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Kate Haute rises from an uncertain place in fifteenth-century society to enter the households surrounding the House of York. Her relationship with Richard, Duke of Gloucester, develops while civil war, dynastic marriage and service to Edward IV repeatedly separate private loyalty from political duty. As Richard becomes a military commander and eventually Richard III, Kate must build a life that cannot be publicly recognised, while protecting the children the novel imagines they share. The story presents the Wars of the Roses from outside formal royal marriage, combining a fictionalised love story with Richard’s career from youth to Bosworth.