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To: wardaddy

102 posts to mention Margaret Beaufort. If anyone other than Richard had the means, motive and opportunity to have the Princes murdered it was her.


110 posted on 01/29/2018 5:16:34 AM PST by The Chid
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To: The Chid

Margaret Beaufort was a very determined woman who had to grow up fast and I think at least felt sullied by such an early marriage consummation

12 I think ....She was 13 when Henry VII was actually born and it almost killed them both and she never got oreganant again despite a number of spouses

She was very very rich and held into her estate through tribulations that often fell just short of an Attainder

She managed to get along with her rival Elizabeth Woodville wife of Edward IV and survived Richard III who had issues with her but never squashed her

She outlived her son and coronited her grandson Henry VIII and owned and dispensed all her inheritance which rivaled the regents as she saw fit

Did she reallly love Jasper Tudor more than his deceased brother Edmund her husband

Did she have a hand in the death of the princes in the tower

Who knows?

She was pious and resolute and had impecccable bloodlines


130 posted on 01/29/2018 9:04:22 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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