Scandalous Review: QUEEN BY RIGHT - Anne Easter Smith
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Title: QUEEN BY RIGHT Author: Anne Easter Smith Paperback: 528 pages Publisher: Touchstone; Original edition (May 10, 2011) Language: English Received copy from Publisher From the back cover: From the award-winning author of A Rose for the Crown, Daughter of York, and The King’s Grace comes another masterful historical novel—the story of Cecily of York, mother of two kings and the heroine of one of history’s greatest love stories. In Cecily Neville, duchess of York and ancestor of every English monarch to the present day, Anne Easter Smith has found her most engrossing character yet. History remembers Cecily of York standing on the steps of the Market Cross at Ludlow, facing an attacking army while holding the hands of her two young sons. Queen by Right reveals how she came to step into her destiny, beginning with her marriage to Richard, duke of York, whom she meets when she is nine and he is thirteen. Raised together in her father’s household, they become a true love match an