After that, the plot improved significantly and I didn’t land on anything else that had me really irritated. Perhaps those are not on the strict factual side like dates, but they stuck out and annoyed me, so I figured I’d include them they both do enhance the story, so I can’t really blame her.
Henry did become the Lancastrian claimant, but only because literally every other choice was dead. The wars were starting, yes, but the king had a son, and even if he didn’t the Yorkists had a better claim since they weren’t descended from a line specifically NOT allowed to take the throne. And it got worse when she believed her pregnancy was of paramount importance to England. I severely doubt a ten year old girl would have ever even heard of her, let alone decided she wanted to be her. As far as I’m aware, English people at the time merely thought of Joan as an heretic, when they thought of her at all.
I didn’t believe Margaret Beaufort would idolize Joan of Arc. Once again, Philippa Gregory has written a book which has me a little bit torn. Through three marriages and countless smiles of false loyalty, Margaret never loses sight of her goal, even when it drives away all the people who might once have loved her. As she grows and gives birth to a son at the age of 13, though, Margaret realizes that she is called to a different purpose, to put her son on the throne of England. Ten year old Margaret Beaufort wants to devote her life to prayer, perhaps becoming an abbess in the process, since she can’t ride to the glory of her country like Joan of Arc.
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