![]() ![]() ![]() (She doesn't even has a Wikipedia page: here is the best source.) Weir imagines what it must have been like to have been the daughter, baseborn or not, of Richard III, hated in his lifetime and ever after as the man who killed his nephews. Alison Weir masterfully weaves together the stories of these two women, connecting them through the always intriguing story of the princes in the tower.While much is known about Grey, Weir was able to be a bit freer with Katherine Plantagenet, since less is known about her life. ![]() Part of it was the format: short vignettes that moved between the two main characters, Richard III's illegitimate daughter Katherine, and Lady Katherine Grey, the sister of Lady Jane Grey. I had to renew it but once I started reading, I really couldn't stop. But there I was checking out A Dangerous Inheritance at the library after book group a couple weeks ago. I thought I had lost interest in yet more historical fiction related to the Plantagenets and Tudors. ![]()
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