Margaret Beaufort has long been put forward as a shadowy mastermind potentially behind one of England’s greatest royal ...

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Michael O’Mara Books is to publish the first comprehensive popular biography in 30 years of Margaret Beaufort by historian Nicola Tallis. Deputy editorial director at Michael O’Mara Books Fiona Slater ...

England’s most notorious dynasty owes much to the trials of a 13-year-old girl: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. On January 28, 1457, the young widow—her first husband, Edmund Tudor, had died ...

Game Of Thrones alumna Michelle Fairley has been cast as Margaret Beaufort in The White Princess, Starz‘s follow-up to its critically-acclaimed miniseries The White Queen, from Company Pictures.

A frigid fanatic in high necklines she is the ultimate tiger mother. A woman willing even to commit child murder as she plots her son Henry Tudor's path to the throne. But this is a depiction shaped ...

Margaret Beaufort was never queen, even uncrowned, but her only child became Henry VII when he defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485, and Nicola Tallis, a British scholar and the author of a ...

History enthusiasts have begun a search for the exact location of a "lost" 15th Century royal palace. Collyweston Palace in Northamptonshire belonged to Henry VII's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, who ...

Michelle Fairley, best known for her portrayal of Catelyn Stark in the HBO drama, will star in the miniseries. By Bryn Sandberg Former Game of Thrones star Michelle Fairley is joining Starz‘ ...

History enthusiasts have begun a search for the exact location of a "lost" 15th Century royal palace. Collyweston Palace in Northamptonshire belonged to Henry VII's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, who ...