DOC Ted Strong Jr.: The Untold Story of an Original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-Star by Sherman L. Jenkins in History

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Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII; surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole; Countess of Salisbury; hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. From the start; Margaret’s life had been marred by tragedy and violence: her father; George; Duke of Clarence; had been executed at the order of his own brother; Edward IV; and her naïve young brother; Edward; Earl of Warwick; had spent most of his life in the Tower before being executed on the orders of Henry VII. Yet Margaret; friend to Catherine of Aragon and the beloved governess of her daughter Mary; had seemed destined for a happier fate; until religious upheaval and rebellion caused Margaret and her family to fall from grace. From Margaret’s birth as the daughter of a royal duke to her beatification centuries after her death; 'Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower' tells the story of one of the fortress’s most unlikely prisoners.