Sarah Gristwood is a bestselling Tudor biographer, former film journalist, and commentator on royal affairs. She is the author of Arbella: England's Lost Queen and Elizabeth and Leicester, as well as the 18th-century story Perdita: Royal Mistress, Writer, Romantic, which was selected as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.
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To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a 'cousins' war.' The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any fa... SEE MORE