vanderbilt: → Elizabeth Woodville’s coronation (26th of May 1465), part. 1« She was awed by the m
vanderbilt: → Elizabeth Woodville’s coronation (26th of May 1465), part. 1« She was awed by the magnificent solemnity of the Abbey and the ceremony, and was acutely conscious that some of the watchers thought her unsuitable and unworthy. Were they perhaps hoping for some lapse, some indication that she lacked the “queenliness” of a lady born into the purple, and were they relieved or disappointed when everything ran smoothly ? It was an exciting, almost dream-like, experience, but she controlled the emotions which crowded upon her and displayed a calm exterior to the assembled peers. The procession left the Abbey in the same order with the Duke of Suffolk, and the Earl of Essex, carrying the sceptres, and Elizabeth was conducted through a Hall to her Chamber where she was “newe revestyd in a surcote of purpull”.» ― David Baldwin, Elizabeth Woodville, Mother of the Princes in the Tower. -- source link
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