Queens Cross hardcover n/ jacket rare by Lawrence Schoonover 1955

Reviewed by Margaret Donsbach Queen's Cross by Lawrence Schoonover Lawrence Schoonover, who published Queen's Cross in 1955, deserves much credit for his admiring portrait of Queen Isabella of Castile, since this shrewd and deftly autocratic warrior queen did not exactly match the 1950s concept of the ideal American woman. As a seventeen-year-old princess, having refused to join a rebellion against her much-older half-brother, King Henry IV of Castile, Isabella helped negotiate a treaty in which Henry named her his heir, passing over his daughter. Successfully evading Henry's efforts to select her husband, Isabella chose instead to wed the young and dynamic Ferdinand, then King of Sicily and heir to the throne of Aragón. Upon Henry's death, she enforced her right to the throne of Castile by going to war against his daughter. She and Ferdinand, now King of Aragón, ruled jointly as equals over the two Spanish kingdoms their marriage united. In 1492, the pair conquered the Moorish Kingdom