queenwydville:get to know me meme: [3/-] favourite historical couplesELIZABETH WOODVILLE & KING

queenwydville:get to know me meme: [3/-] favourite historical couplesELIZABETH WOODVILLE & KING EDWARD IVUpon hearing that the young king was hunting in the neighbourhood of her mother’s dower castle at Grafton, Elizabeth waited for him beneath a noble tree known in the traditions of Northamptonshire, as “the queen’s oak,” hold a fatherless boy in either hand; and when Edward, who must have been well acquainted with her previously at the English court, paused to listen to her, she threw herself at his feet, and pleaded for the restoration of her children’s lands.  Her downcast looks and mournful beauty not only gained her suit, but the heart of the conqueror.  Edward was unwilling to make her his queen, but she left him to settle the question; knowing that he had betrayed others, her affections still clave to the memory of the husband of her youth.  Her indifference increased the love of the young king.  The struggle ended in his offering her marriage, which took place May 1, 1464.  It was on Michaelmas day, 1464, that Edward IV finally declared to Elizabeth to be his wedded wife, at Reading palace.{[inspiration]} -- source link

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