Lady Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Kingmaker, Powerhouse

🏆 This article received the York Historian Women's History Award in 2025.

A biography of the Tudor family matriarch Margaret Beaufort, mother to King Henry VII and grandmother to King Henry VIII. 

An excerpt from the introduction:

"The Wars of the Roses are a complex period of English history, with much of the focus placed on particular men in the main roles such as Henry VI, Edward IV, Richard III, the Princes in the Tower and Henry VII. One of the primary players, however, must be given the mainstream attention she deserves: Lady Margaret Beaufort [...] She faced the hardships of child marriage, pregnancy trauma, separation from her child, the threat of execution and outliving four husbands, yet, she persevered to become one of the richest and most influential people in the English medieval period in her own right and left behind a powerful legacy."