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The bestselling author of A Rose for the Crown and Daughter of York takes a young woman that history noticed only once and sets her on a quest for the truth about the murder of two boys and a man who claims to be king.
All that history knows of Grace Plantagenet is that she was an illegitimate daughter of Edward IV and one of two attendants aboard the funeral barge of his widowed queen. Thus, she was half sister of the famous young princes, who -- when this story begins in 1485 -- had been housed in the Tower by their uncle, Richard III, and are presumed dead.
But in the 1490s, a young man appears at the courts of Europe claiming to be Richard, duke of York, the younger of the boys, and seeking to claim his rightful throne from England's first Tudor king, Henry VII. But is this man who he says he is? Or is he Perkin Warbeck, a puppet of Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy, who is determined to regain the crown for her York family? Grace Plantagenet finds herself in the midst of one of English history's greatest mysteries. If she can discover the fate of the princes and the true identity of Perkin Warbeck, perhaps she will find her own place in her family.
- Sales Rank: #102973 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Touchstone
- Published on: 2009-03-10
- Released on: 2009-03-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.40" w x 6.12" l, 1.45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 608 pages
- Great product!
From Publishers Weekly
Smith's newest historical fiction (after Daughter of York) is a complex exploration of a turbulent period of English history, taking on one of its biggest mysteries: the fate of princes Edward and Richard, locked up in the Tower by Richard III. Protagonist Grace Plantagenet is the illegitimate daughter of Edward IV and had been confidant to his family—including her imprisoned half-brothers Edward and Richard. After Richard III is killed and the princes disappear, a man named Perkin Warbeck appears to challenge Henry VII, claiming to be the presumed dead Prince Richard. Determined to discover the truth of Warbeck's claim, Grace throws herself into the politics of the court, knowing that if Warbeck is Prince Richard, it could be drastic for Grace's family—especially for her half-sister Elizabeth of York, now Henry's queen. Examined through the eyes of a minor historical figure, Smith introduces readers to 15th-century political intrigue with thought, courage and honesty. Though her major historical figures (especially Henry VII) get the broad-brush treatment, Smith is careful to make Grace and her world detailed and engaging. (Mar.)
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From Booklist
One of the most satisfying trends in historical fiction has been the liberation of seemingly minor historical figures from footnote status. When these formerly obscure characters take to the main stage, history is rewritten from an entirely fresh perspective. In this fictional biography of Grace Plantagenet, Smith, author of A Rose for the Crown (2006) and Daughter of York (2008), continues the fifteenth-century resurrection process with aplomb. The illegitimate daughter of Edward IV, Grace is summarily plunged into court rivalries and intrigue when a young man claiming to be the rightful heir to the throne surfaces. Is he who he claims he is, or is he Margaret of York’s pawn in an elaborate game of political chess? In this meticulously researched and elaborately plotted narrative, Smith continues to put a human face on a bitter feud between branches of a royal house that stretched over decades, spawning a seemingly endless amount of potential protagonists and material for historical fiction. --Margaret Flanagan
Review
"Never again will history overlook Grace Plantagenet....Beautifully wrought and compelling, with vivid historical detail, this is a fascinating account of one woman's determination to discover the truth about her family." -- Michelle Moran, bestselling author of The Heretic Queen
"A fascinating and vividly written take on one of history's most mysterious episodes." -- Vanora Bennett, author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
(3.5 stars) "That old crone of a soothsayer in Winchester spake the truth."
By Luan Gaines
Top billing in Anne Easter Smith's latest novel is given to Grace Plantagenet, a woman barely recorded by history who is a blank slate upon which the author builds a feasible tale of Perkin Warbeck, the young man who claims to be one of the Princes in the Tower. Heirs of Edward IV, the princes, Edward V and his younger brother, Richard, the Duke of York, have disappeared into myth, their fate left for historians to debate. Some claim they were murdered by Richard III, or perhaps dispatched by Henry VII, grist for much speculation. Smith enters the fray through the unassuming Grace Plantagenet, a young woman brought into Elizabeth Woodville's household, wife of Edward IV. When scandalous information surfaces about the status of Bess Woodville's marriage to Edward, the marriage is declared invalid, the progeny of the union illegitimate. Greedy, ambitious and unpopular, Woodville goes into sanctuary after Edward's death, but is forced to release her sons into Richard's keeping. After Richard's death at the Battle of Bosworth, Woodville's daughter, Elizabeth of York, marries Henry VII, the taint of her illegitimacy removed by the new kin.
The Yorkist's cause remains viable, Henry Tudor reviled by those who would see their power restored. Margaret of York is deeply involved in the plotting in Burgundy, where a young boy resides under her care from 1478-1485, classically educated and groomed for his future role as the returning Richard of York. Meanwhile, Grace Plantagenet, the vehicle for moving the plot, joins Woodville's household, a favorite of the mother of Henry's new queen. As a family intimate, Grace is privy to the York machinations to unseat Henry Tudor and the early days of his marriage to Elizabeth of York. All too soon, Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort, will overshadow her son's queen and become his most trusted confidante, Elizabeth languishing in the background. And when Woodville is accused of treachery against the crown, she is sent to the Abbey of Bermondsey, taking the faithful Grace with her (where the girl remains for the next three years). Later, joining her half-sister, Cecily's (wife of Viscount Jack Welles, Henry's step-uncle) household, Grace witnesses the unfolding drama of Perkin Warbeck claims, Henry's greatest fear realized.
Nurtured by Margaret of York, Warbeck is the true focus of this novel, his growing threat to Tudor's rule, a threat that lasts for eight long years. Behind the scenes, Grace comforts Woodville (made much more tolerable than usually described), continues a lovelorn infatuation with a first cousin, attends her half-sisters in Henry's court and even travels to Burgundy on a secret mission. Grace's tentative, yet obstinate nature is revealed in her obsession with her Yorkist cousin, even after marriage. Grace is a creature ruled by her emotions, whether sympathy for an unsympathetic Woodville or ambivalence toward her husband, who tolerates Grace's outrageous behavior and her involvement with Perkin Warbeck's adventures. Smith's novel is a patchwork of odd pieces, some more carefully stitched than others. Still, that's the goal of historical novelists, creating plausible scenarios from bits of history, a balance of fact and fiction, in this case the fate of Perkin Warbeck, the Yorkist hope for restoring the throne to York while wreaking revenge on an arrogant Henry Tudor. Luan Gaines/2009.
31 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Banal and predictable
By S. McGee
Anne Easter Smith is no Sharon Penman, despite the superficial similarities in crafting epic-length historical fiction based on the events of the Middle Ages in England. In Penman's hands, the turbulent years that followed the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth and the gradual disappearance of the Yorkist cause as the Tudor dynasty brought peace and prosperity to England, could have been transformed into a lively book. Instead, the story of Grace Plantangenet's coming of age in this era ends up a rather limp read.
All that is known of the real-life Grace Plantagenet is her name, and that she was an illegitimate daughter of Edward IV who was some kind of attendant on his queen, Elizabeth Woodville, at the latter's death and funeral. On that basis, Smith has been free to imagine an entire life for Grace, revolving around the conspiracies of the early years of the Tudor reign that saw several serious rebellions against Henry VII's embryonic dynasty. Even as Henry's wife Elizabeth, daughter to Edward IV, gave birth to one child after another to carry the Tudor name into history, pretenders to the crown challenged the right of those children to inherit -- in the name of her vanished brothers, the famous Princes in the Tower.
That's a lot of literary luxury which Smith could exploit. But she manages to make the Tudors and the remaining Plantagenets feel like little more than the modern-day dysfunctional family (with the added twist that its head could not only lock you up in your room but take you out and behead you in public for misbehavior). Grace's rebellious streak -- she is willing to cling to her belief in the Yorkist cause long past the point when her half-sisters have given up -- doesn't gibe with what Smith portrays of her personality. How could a young woman willing to docilely wait on an ailing and cantankerous queen, shut up in a monastery, simultaneously be the same kind of person willing to challenge a king? And why is she so willing to believe in that cause in the first place? (The implicit argument that she will find an answer to her own crisis of identity is thin and unconvincing.) Smith never really provides any compelling rationale for Grace's apparent certainty that Perkin Warbeck is really her young half-brother Richard, while the later volte face is a bit laughable. Anyone who read Smith's previous book focusing on Margaret of York (Daughter of York: A Novel) will find that Margaret has gone from being a sympathetic, wise ruler to a rather manipulative power player who doesn't care who is hurt by her machinations.
It's unfortunate that this period of time seems to be lacking in good historical fiction. Sandra Worth's recent historical novel focusing on Elizabeth of York is downright bad; this, for all its faults, is reasonably true to history and (for those with an above average tolerance for unnecessarily florid language along the likes of "certes" and "spake") quite readable. It's just not nearly as good as it could be. For a sense of what this book could have been, I'd urge reading The King's Grey Mare. This novel focuses on Elizabeth Woodville, partly through the eyes of the same Grace Plantagenet who (in another parallel with Smith's book) falls in love with Richard III's illegitimate son, John of Gloucester. But Jarman's characters are richer and her writing far superior. A good book about Elizabeth of York is the somewhat dated Tudor Rose (Shadows of the Crown series), which should be reissued soon along with Margaret Campbell Barnes's other novels. When compared to the heroines of either novel, Smith's Grace Plantangenet looks, despite all her adventures, like a rather naive and slightly dim-witted young woman and her creator a writer who has yet to find a way to make her plots, characters and writing live up to their potential.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
The awful wiles of women...
By Amy M. Bruno
Grace Plantagenet, bastard daughter of King Edward IV of England is only mentioned once in history - in a account written first hand about the small party seen escorting the Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville's funeral barge. This lack of the Grace's historical background provides the author, Anne Easter Smith, complete control over her heroine, which is quite unique in a historical fiction novel (if it's a GOOD historical fiction novel, that is!).
Grace spends the first 11 years of her life in an abbey, when one day Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville summons her to court. England is in much turmoil at this time - King Edward IV is dead and the marriage between he and Elizabeth has been declared invalid and their children made bastards, based on the facts now coming to light of Edward's previous betrothal. Edward's brother, King Richard III wears the crown, the two York princes and heirs to the throne are in the tower for "safe keeping" and Henry Tudor is threatening to invade.
When Henry Tudor succeeds with his invasion and King Richard III dies in battle, the Tudor Dynasty is born. Edward and Elizabeth's daughter, Bess, reluctantly marries the usurper and surprisingly they end up very happy together. They will eventually produce four children: Arthur, Mary, Margaret and the infamous, Henry VIII.
As his hold on the crown is not very secure, Henry is constantly fearful and paranoid. He suspects Elizabeth Woodville of plotting against him and sends her to Bermondsey Abbey. Grace accompanies her out of respect and feelings of gratitude, although she never thought she'd be once again in an abbey. This part was really interesting to me - we get to see a softer side of the formidable Woodville woman and even though she's every bit of a Royal snob, she is a real human being underneath and I actually grew to like her a bit! The proper and moral Good Queen Bess and her less than moral, impetuous sister, Cecily bring amusing moments to the novel and provide a sense of family among the siblings. Grace is the diplomat between these two very strong personalities.
Stories of a young man calling himself Richard, the lost duke of York, begin reaching England. No one knows what to believe - is it the lost prince or a boatman's son from Tournai named Perkin Warbeck (sp) pretending to be Richard? And if he is just a boatman's son, how does he know French & Latin? Grace's inquisitive nature takes her on a mission to find out the truth - for her and for her family. In the end, nothing is quite what it seemed to be.
Not only is The King's Grace about the mystery of Perkin Warbeck, but of Grace - a girl who is trying to find her own path in life and the obstacles she overcomes to get there. Sweet natured and one for the underdogs, Grace is a pleasure to read about and I truly enjoyed this story. I'm no expert on The Princes in the Tower, so I can't really comment on Smith's explanation of the Perkin/Richard debate, but her conclusion doesn't seem too out there and was believable for me. And the happy ending was a nice change of pace from your usual historical fiction ending.
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