Margaret of Anjou

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1430–82, queen of Henry VI of England.

Margaret of Anjou

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1430–82, queen of England. She married the mentally unstable Henry VI of England in 1445 to confirm the truce with France during the Hundred Years' War. She became a leader of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses and was defeated at Tewkesbury (1471) by Edward IV

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The historian Lauren Johnson has unearthed evidence showing that when Margaret of Anjou visited her husband’s bedroom for marital relations, they were sometimes joined by trusted courtiers.

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Queen Margaret of Anjou is the tale’s voice of protest, hurling curses near the top of the play, and Lizan Mitchell delivers the warnings with mythic fervor.

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The remarkable and ruthless Margaret of Anjou appears in Shakespeare's Henry VI parts one, two and three, and in Richard III.

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Impeachments on this ground were a constant beginning with the charges against William de la Pole in 1450 for his role in arranging the marriage of Henry VI to Margaret of Anjou.

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She resembles the villainous Margaret of Anjou, queen by marriage to the feeble King Henry VI. Margaret was also ruthless and highly influential.

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Mead, Margaret Margaret of Navarre

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