The first novel in the sweeping series, The Cousins War, Philippa Gregory’s The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta Woodville, Lady Rivers. The mother of the eventual queen of England, Elizabeth Woodville, Jacquetta is a young woman from Luxembourg’s royal family. She is married at 17 to the Duke of Bedford who, according to the novel, wished to use her prowess as a wise woman and a seer to increase the power of the nation of England against France and other international powers. Only a […]