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Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

1473–1541

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was a Plantagenet noblewoman and one of the last members of a dynasty with a strong hereditary claim to the English throne. Her execution under Henry VIII reflected the deadly politics of Tudor suspicion and succession anxiety.

Philippa Gregory’s The King’s Curse places Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.

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The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels in Order

by Philippa Gregory 16 books 4.4

The Plantagenet and Tudor novels form a chronological sequence of connected but independently readable stories about women near the English throne. They move from the Lancastrian court and the Wars of the Roses through the rise of the Tudors, Henry VIII’s marriages, the mid-Tudor religious crisis and the…

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