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BBC One - The White Queen - Margaret Beaufort. Margaret Beaufort. Played by Amanda Hale. A fierce Lancastrian supporter, Margaret was married to the half-brother of the Lancastrian...
- George, Duke of Clarence
He shares Warwick’s displeasure of Edward’s marriage to...
- Edward IV
He makes numerous attempts to overthrow Edward, the first...
- Jacquetta Woodville
Jacquetta was the daughter of Count Peter of Luxembourg....
- Elizabeth Woodville
Elizabeth was married to Sir John Grey, who died at the...
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- George, Duke of Clarence
She subsequently allied herself with Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (previous ally to Richard III) and Margaret Beaufort (Henry Tudor’s mother). Together they collaborated to ensure that Henry Tudor, the great-great-great grandson of Edward III, would claim the throne.
She conspired with her former lady-in-waiting, Margaret Beaufort, and launched an attack on the Tower to free her sons. When that failed, and the rumours started that the boys had disappeared, she betrothed her daughter, Elizabeth, to Margaret’s son, Henry Tudor, and when Henry Tudor won the Battle of Bosworth, she saw her daughter take the ...
Amanda Hale as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor, a great-granddaughter of John, Duke of Lancaster; Max Irons as Edward IV of England; Michael Jenn as Dr Lewis; Ben Lamb as Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers; Michael Maloney as Sir Henry Stafford, third husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort; Michael Marcus as Henry Tudor, later Henry ...
Jul 11, 2013 · Continuing the series on the history of The White Queen, this week is the turn of Margaret Beaufort. The excellent Amanda Hale’s portrayal shows her as utterly dedicated to her son, though it would seem to border on the obsessive, the same of which can be said of her faith and piety. This image of…
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In June 2013, she played Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in the BBC series The White Queen, based on Philippa Gregory's best-selling historical novel series The Cousins' War. In the same year, she starred as Elinor Dashwood in Helen Edmundson 's BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sense and Sensibility .
Through her daughter, Elizabeth Woodville was a grandmother of the future Henry VIII. Elizabeth was forced to yield pre-eminence to Henry VII's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort; her influence on events in these years, and her eventual departure from court into retirement, remain obscure.
