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Anne Stanhope: Made a Countess by a Prince's Birth, Widowed by His Reign
Anne Stanhope was taken to the Tower of London while her nephew was king. His birth had made her a countess. His reign would leave her a widow.
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Elizabeth I: Smallpox at Hampton Court and the Question of an Heir
Elizabeth was twenty-nine. She lay unconscious at Hampton Court while her councillors discussed who should have her crown. The men who needed her decisions were having to make provision for a country without her.
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Anne of Gloucester: A Will in English
She had been married off as a child. Anne of Gloucester wanted her will in English, so that she could read and understand it. At the end of her life, she had instructions of her own.
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Eleanor de Clare: Constable and Prisoner of the Tower of London
Eleanor de Clare held the Tower of London for a month. Then they locked her inside it.
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Cecily Neville: The Mother Who Outlived Her Sons and Their Dynasty
Cecily was the youngest of her father's twenty-two children and would give birth to twelve of her own. Thirty-three years after giving birth to her youngest son, she had outlived her husband, all her sons, and the dynasty they had built.
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Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince: The Funeral He Planned for Canterbury
He was born heir to the throne and died at forty-five, still waiting. The day before, he planned his own funeral. A nine-year-old boy took his place.
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Joan, Daughter of Edward II: Married at Seven to Robert the Bruce's Son
She was born in the Tower of London. Six years later her mother had her father murdered. A year after that, she was given away. She was seven years old.
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Mary de Bohun: Rescued from a Convent, Married at Eleven, Mother of Henry V
She was ten years old when her brother-in-law tried to put her in a convent. He did not do it out of piety. He did it because if she took holy vows her inheritance would pass to him.