How do we know her?
Hilary Mantel: The Secrets of Margaret Pole, 2 February 2017
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower
by Susan Higginbotham.
Amberley, 214 pp., £16.99, August 2016,978 1 4456 3594 1 Show More
by Susan Higginbotham.
Amberley, 214 pp., £16.99, August 2016,
“... own Plantagenet relations. She is the daughter of a duke and the niece of two kings, Edward IV and Richard III. On her wrist, emblematic, is a small barrel. Her father was Shakespeare’s ‘false, fleeting, perjured Clarence’, who died in the Tower of London at the age of 29, attainted for treason and supposedly drowned in a butt of malmsey. A possible ... ”