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3 articles matching “Richard Woodville”
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561 Years ago today.. On the twenty-sixth of May 1465, Elizabeth Woodville was crowned Queen of England at Westminster Abbey, precisely one year after a marriage the court had not been told about until four months after it happened.
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She made the same choice twice. Her daughter made it once. Between the three of them they changed the succession of England. Nobody called it strategy. Nobody had a charge for that.
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She had been Queen of England. She died in a convent with nothing, having asked for a quiet funeral with no expense. No explanation was ever recorded. Henry VII never gave one.