Within a week of Edward’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville becoming public knowledge, diplomatic chan
Within a week of Edward’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville becoming public knowledge, diplomatic channels were buzzing with the news that the king had ‘determined to take the daughter of my Lord Rivers, a widow with two children, having long loved her, it appears’. The idea that the new king had married for love, rather than for hard-headed political gain, must have made a certain amount of sense to the bewildered ambassadors who gossiped together in the courts of Europe. How else to explain the astonishing rise of Elizabeth Woodville – the unlikeliest queen consort in English history?–The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones -- source link
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