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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Elizabeth Woodville
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(1437–92)
Queen of *Edward IV. The marriage caused offence at the Yorkist court, particularly to *Warwick the Kingmaker, because her family, now heaped with wealth and favours, had previously been Lancastrian supporters. Her two sons by Edward, the *princes in the Tower, are assumed to have been murdered soon after their father's death. But her descendants continued on the throne through the marriage of her daughter, Elizabeth, to *Henry VII.
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