Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the
royalty of Europe, was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of
Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the
extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house-hold for love,
and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's
close friend and a Lancaster supporter - until the day that her daughter
Elizabeth Woodville fell in love and married the rival king Edward IV.
Of all the little-known but important women of the period, her dramatic
story is the most neglected. With her links to Melusina, and to the
founder of the house of Luxembourg, together with her reputation for
making magic, she is the most haunting of heroines.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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