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The Tudor dynasty owed everything to Margaret Beaufort’s machinations

The great Tudor matriarch learnt realpolitik the hard way, from the moment she gave birth — as a 13-year-old widow — to the future Henry VII

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    Nicola Tallis

    Michael O’Mara, pp. 362, £12

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