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29 articles matching “Richard II”
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Isabella of Valois was nine, and her husband was to spend the rest of his life in prison. He had been King of England. Her father was King of France. Neither crown could bring them together again.
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Three-year-old Henry Tudor was about to receive the title of his mother's missing brother. Across the Channel, another man was claiming it. Henry VII put his own small son before the court.
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She was thirteen when she gave birth to him, and his father was already dead. Now her son was riding through London in purple velvet, with a canopy above his head. Margaret Beaufort was forty-two. The child had become the king.
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She was twenty when her husband died and her baby became King of England. Her marriage had been written into a treaty over two kingdoms. Even in widowhood, her next marriage was thought too important to leave to her.
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She was about twelve when she was crowned queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Her husband was roughly twice her age. Years later, she would govern in his absence.
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Isabella married her father's hostage. It wasn't until their wedding day that her father released him.
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Cecily Neville was thirty-four when she gave birth to George inside Dublin Castle. Another of her sons would one day become his king. That same son would have him executed.
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He wrote to his seven-year-old son and told him to obey his mother. If anyone advised the boy otherwise, he was to treat it as bad counsel. Until that winter Suffolk had been the most powerful man in Henry VI's government. He wanted no doubt about whose advice his son should trust.
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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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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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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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Margaret Beaufort’s first husband was born on 27 September 1442. Seven years later, he married her. She was likely only six years old. The pope only gave his blessing afterwards.