In this lecture recorded at BBC History Magazine’s 2019 History Weekends – and available exclusively on HistoryExtra.com – historian Nicola Tallis explores the life of Tudor matriarch Margaret Beaufort, who became England’s most powerful woman during the reign of her son, Henry VII.

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