Elizabeth Woodville WHITE QUEEN & Black Magic

Was witchcraft behind the fairy-tale marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville?

Words WILLOW WINSHAM

Elizabeth Woodville b.1437-d.1492 Best known for her brazen marriage to Edward IV and unenviable role as mother to the tragic Princes in the Tower, Elizabeth had a tumultuous and uncertain position as queen consort of England. The Spring day in 1464 was bright and fair as Edward IV, England’s first Yorkist king, rode with the hunt in Whittlebury Forest. Whether his thoughts lay on his quarry, the weather or the tumultuous times that had brought him the crown, they were soon to be caught by another matter entirely. For there, standing beneath an oak tree, stood the most beautiful of women, a small boy clutching each hand as she watched him approach. Without hesitation she threw herself into his path, pleading with the king to intercede in a matter that…

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