Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (76 page)

“The joining of the Houses of Lancaster and York”: imaginative painting of the wedding of Henry and Elizabeth by J. R. Brown,
ca
. 1901. “Two titles in one thou didst unify, when the red rose took the white in marriage.” (
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“The rose both red and white in one rose now doth grow.” The Deanery, Winchester Cathedral, the former Prior’s House, where Elizabeth’s first child, Arthur, was born in 1486. (
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The birth of a prince, from the Beauchamp Pageant,
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. 1483–87. “Behold, the royal child Arthur arises, the second hope of our kingdom.” (
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“O Commonwealth, the Queen with joyous heart takes up her glorious crown.” The coronation of a queen, from the Beauchamp Pageant,
ca
. 1483–87. Although this drawing depicts Joan of Navarre, wife of Henry IV, it was executed eighty years later, around the time of Elizabeth’s coronation. (
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Bermondsey Abbey, south of London, where Elizabeth’s mother was sent “for divers considerations” in 1487. (
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The Palace of Westminster, with Westminster Abbey in the background, as it would have looked in the reign of Elizabeth’s son, Henry VIII. (St. Stephen’s Chapel can be seen in the center, with Westminster Hall behind it to the right.) Elizabeth was born here. She spent much time at Westminster, which was the foremost of the royal palaces in her day. (
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Perkin Warbeck, the “feigned lad,” who claimed to be Elizabeth’s brother, Richard, Duke of York. He could “move pity and induce belief, as was like a kind of fascination and enchantment to those that saw or heard him.” (
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Edward IV’s great hall at Eltham Palace, where Henry and Elizabeth’s “right dearly well-beloved” younger children spent much time in their early years. (
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“Madam, I pray you forget not me to pray to God that I may have part of your prayers.” Inscriptions written by Elizabeth and Henry VII in a Latin missal of 1498, owned by one of her ladies. (
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Elizabeth’s signature appears at the bottom of this page in
The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen
. (
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Carved reliefs of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York on the Sudbury Hutch of
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.1500. (
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The two foremost residences of the House of York, which passed to Elizabeth in 1495. (
Left
) Baynard’s Castle, on the Thames in London, where her father, Edward IV, and her uncle, Richard III, were in turn offered the crown. (
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