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Thwarted Queen
- The Entire Saga About the Yorks, Lancasters, and Nevilles, Whose Family Feud Inspired "Game of Thrones"
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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Thwarted Queen, a frustrating tale (hence the title) of Lady Cecylee Neville who was nearly crowned Queen of England, tells the entire saga about the Yorks, Lancasters, and Nevilles, whose family feud started the Wars of the Roses and inspired Game of Thrones.
When Robert Baratheon died suddenly after a boar hunt, all hell broke loose. When Edward IV, King of England, died suddenly after a fishing trip in April 1483, another phase of the Wars of the Roses ensued, the Yorks (Starks) battling the Lancasters (Lannisters).
Thwarted Queen is told mainly in the voice of Lady Cecylee Neville (1415-1495), the thwarted queen, but other voices are important to this tale, not least those of the Londoners, who forged their own political destiny by engaging in public debate with the powerful aristocrats of the time - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (the king’s uncle), Richard, Duke of York (the king’s cousin) and Richard, Earl of Warwick, (known as Warwick the Kingmaker) - and set the stage for American democracy.
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- jan
- 28-10-21
Note perfect narration!
Thwarted Queen is an epic saga of love, hate, death and betrayal set in the turbulent years of the Wars of the Roses and told, almost exclusively, from the perspective of Lady Cecylee Neville, whose star rose and fell according to the strengths and weaknesses of the family to whom she was allied. The entire book is narrated by Diana Croft and in it she has to age Lady Cecylee from a small child to an old lady of 80, and also take on the parts of all the other protagonists, both male and female. Her voice has an incredible range, giving life and substance to all the characters, be they the bell-like notes of a small, female child, an imperious male with a speech impediment, a haughty lady of the Court or the weakening croak of an ageing matriarch. Although the story is complicated and convoluted, I was never in any doubt as to which character was speaking, and it brought alive for me a period of history of which I am almost completely ignorant. An absolute triumph of narration!
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