Margaret Pole
eBook - ePub

Margaret Pole

The Countess in the Tower

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eBook - ePub

Margaret Pole

The Countess in the Tower

About this book

Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. From the start, Margaret's life had been marred by tragedy and violence: her father, George, Duke of Clarence, had been executed at the order of his own brother, Edward IV, and her naive young brother, Edward, Earl of Warwick, had spent most of his life in the Tower before being executed on the orders of Henry VII. Yet Margaret, friend to Katherine of Aragon and the beloved governess of her daughter Mary, had seemed destined for a happier fate until religious upheaval and rebellion caused Margaret and her family to fall from grace. From Margaret's birth as the daughter of a royal duke to her beatification centuries after her death, Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower tells the story of one of the fortress's most unlikely prisoners.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author’s Note
  3. 1. Daughter of Violence
  4. 2. A New Order
  5. 3. Two Widows
  6. 4. Countess of Salisbury
  7. 5. Lady Governess
  8. 6. Perseverance
  9. 7. Unheard-of Cruelty
  10. 8. Honour and Conscience
  11. 9. An Opinion Given
  12. 10. Coming to Stripes
  13. 11. The Lady in the Tower
  14. 12. Restoration
  15. Picture Section
  16. Epilogue: Pious Ends
  17. Appendix 1: The Evidence in the Exeter Conspiracy: A Selection
  18. Appendix 2: Margaret’s Goods and Servants
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. List of Illustrations