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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
Yeah, it's staggering the number of times the names Edward and Henry get used over and over.
I just started the Red Queen, seems to be the 2nd book in Philippa Gregory's series. The first I just finished, The Lady of the Rivers, sets up the story, and I can tell now, by starting the Red Queen, a lot more about the TV series The White Queen, as in who's who, etc. Seems the TV series skips all the stuff from the first two books and jumps right in, no explanations. Well, now I know who the wretchedly amitious and pious woman in the TV series is, she's Margaret Beaufort, and she's the protagonist in the Red Queen (book 2) ((did I mention there are several Margarets to keep track of, also?)). So, ah ha, I see, and now it's making more sense. Plus the books do an outstanding job of casually filling in the family histories.
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Margaret, Anne, Henry, Richard, Edward... someone get these people a better baby naming book!
It gets even more confusing by the tendency sometimes to refer to a man by his title - Clarence, Warwick, Gloucester, etc., which then has to be mentally reconciled with whichever Tom, Dick or Harry (or rather George, Richard or Henry) who's holding it at the moment.
This site looks to have a pretty decent collections of royal family trees for Britain, going all the way from Alfred the Great to the current generation, plus separate ones for the Plantagenets and Tudors which would likely encompass the period you're dealing with.
http://www.britroyals.com/royals.htm