ohfairmaidenofyork: “In 1475, when Edward departed England to engage in a new phase of the Hun
ohfairmaidenofyork:“In 1475, when Edward departed England to engage in a new phase of the Hundred Years War, he appointed the four-year-old Prince of Wales as Keeper of the Realm; but the king wrote a will in which he named his “derrest and moost entirely beloved wiff Elizabeth the Quene” as his primary executor, and stipulated that she should keep the wordily goods he had not otherwise bequeathed to holy orders. Edward IV might have been a serial philanderer, but he did take excellent care of his wife and seemed to be very proud of her. Throughout their marriage, Elizabeth and Edward were very close and he evidently sought and listened to her counsel.” - Notorious Royal Marriages by Leslie Carroll“I Elisabeth by the grace of God Quene of England, late wif to the most victoroiuse Prince of blessed memorie Edward the Fourth, being of hole mynde, seying the worlde so traunsitorie, and no creature certayne whanne they shall departe frome hence, havyng Almyghty Gode fressh in mynde, in whome is all mercy and grace, bequeath my sowle into his handes, beseechyng him, of the same mercy, to accept it graciously, and oure blessed Lady Quene of comforte, and all the holy company of hevyn, to be good meanes for me. It’m, I bequeith my body to be buried with the bodie of my Lord at Windessore, according to the will of my saide Lorde and myne, without pompes entreing or costlie expensis donne thereabought.” - Elizabeth Woodville in her will in 1492 in which she expresses both her piety and everlasting love for her husband Edward IV. It was both his and her request to be buried beside each other. -- source link
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