A Rose for the Crown: A Novel Review
I love an author who takes a fictional character and tells us all about the history of the time. One of my favourite books is the Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory because I loved the fictional character of Hannah. This book was as good as that and I loved the character of Kate.
Kate leaves her family home at a tender age to live with her cousin as a companion. There she learns a lot about herbs and healing and becomes best friends with her cousin. Kate is married off to an older man that fortunately doesn't live to long and then she marry's for love, or does she? But the man that she would give her heart to completely and no other is Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Over time she would give him three children, two of them sons.
This is novel takes us to the end of the Yorkist period and into the Tudor raine. It is an excellent account of history blended perfectly with fiction. I loved the way Richard of York, the final York King was portrayed as a compassionate and noble man. I highly recommend this wonderful historical novel!
A Rose for the Crown: A Novel Overview
In A ROSE FOR THE CROWN, we meet one of history's alleged villains, Richard III, through the eyes of the woman who might have been the mother of his illegitimate children, a woman who chose to remain anonymous when the court rewards for a king's mistress would have been great, a woman who loved him for who he really was, no matter what the cost to herself.
As Kate Haute moves from her peasant roots in Kent to the highest circles of fifteenth century England, from her carefree girlhood to a much more worldly middle age, her path is inextricably intertwined with that of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III.
Fictional Kate is woven into the real lives of some of the Wars of the Roses most prominent characters at the court of the charismatic and sensual Yorkist King Edward IV, including John Howard and his wife, Margaret, Queen Elizabeth's kinsman Richard Haute, Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham and George, Duke of Clarence.
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