Margaret of Anjou came to England and married King Henry VI. Born to a family of strong women, Margaret was no exception. She was passionate, impulsive, loving, violent and more enamored of the crown than of her peace loving husband. In this turbulent period amid the fortunes of war, men who loved power took center stage, and Henry, poor ineffectual Henry wished only to be lefta alone with is books and his music. Yet his wife, Margaret schemed for his power, and later for his son's, and rushed headlong into disaster.