Gave birth at 13 year of age, survived, plotted all through the Wars of the Roses and succeeded in putting her son Henry on the throne of England tho he had only the most tenuous links to royalty and that only through women.

The woman? Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Two YouTubes about her:



and



Lots more YouTubes.

There is a series of books giving a fictional account of part of Margaret’s life:

Dark Queen
Paul Doherty (Author)

(Dark Queen Watching, Dark Queen Waiting, Dark Queen Rising)