Yet after marriage, a picture emerges of a model consort, mild, pious, generous and fruitful. She had schemed to marry Richard III, the man who had deposed and probably killed her brothers, and it is likely that she then intrigued to put Henry Tudor on the throne. The eldest daughter of Edward IV, at seventeen she was relegated from pampered princess to bastard fugitive, but the probable murders of her brothers, the Princes in the Tower, left Elizabeth heiress to the royal House of York and, in 1486, Henry VII, first sovereign of the House of Tudor, married her, thus uniting the red and white roses of Lancaster and York. Print Elizabeth of York - The First Tudor QueenĮlizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman.
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