Margaret of Anjou is young, beautiful, French and wildly unpopular when she marries England's ill-fated Henry VI. After the English are banished from France, civil war erupts. Margaret becomes a warrior queen, fighting for her husband's right to be king and her son's position as his rightful heir.

The colourful stories of two strong women who changed the course of history, Margaret of Anjou and Margaret Beaufort, revealing how the Tudor era was born. 'Has the colour and power of the best of the chronicles' "Sunday Times"