Person of the Month

Lady Margaret Beaufort’s life is a microcosm of the roles of women during the Wars of the Roses – married four times, all for political reasons, her husbands fought and died for both Lancaster and York. She served the Yorkist queens, whilst intriguing with the Lancastrian exiles to put her son, Henry on the throne. Having achieved her ambition, she went on to be one of the great patrons of education with the foundation of not one, but two, colleges at Cambridge University.