Lady Margaret Beaufort: The Mother of the Tudor Dynasty and Her Enduring Legacy
On a brutal winter night in January 1457, inside the stone walls of Pembroke Castle in Wales, a 13-year-old noble girl labored for her life. Surrounded by midwives, flickering candlelight, and the prayers of attendants, Lady Margaret Beaufort—frail, exhausted, and scarcely past childhood herself—struggled to deliver a baby that physicians deemed far too large for CONTINUE READING…