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Margaret of Austria
by Rozsa Gaston
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Margaret of Austria is raised to become queen of France, only for Charles VIII to repudiate their childhood betrothal and marry Anne of Brittany. Returned to her Habsburg family, Margaret is sent into two further dynastic marriages: first to John, Prince of Asturias, and then to Philibert II of Savoy.
Widowhood gives Margaret a political career denied to most royal women. As governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, guardian of the future Charles V and an experienced negotiator, she turns personal loss into authority and becomes one of the most consequential diplomats of early sixteenth-century Europe.
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