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amazingeugenie:

I would have followed him to hell if he had asked me. And maybe I did.
#edward x elizabeth #edward iv #elizabeth woodville #the white queen #q 

sansastoneheart:

The King has done what he should not. He has married from another house and a commoner at that. There are many that will be cursing our luck and wishing us to fall.

#the white queen #q 

ohfairmaidenofyork:

“Lord Rivers was always considered a kind, serious and just man, and tested by every
vicissitude of life. However much he prospered, he never harmed anyone , while doing good to many'”

On the 25th of June 1483, Anthony Woodville is executed at Pontefract Castle. 

#nooooo #anthony woodville #the white queen #today in history #british history #history #parallels 

sansaregina:

25 June 1483: Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, is executed at Pontefract Castle

Gloucester had taken care of one last bit of business before becoming king: ordering the execution of Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan. Rivers made his will at Sheriff Hutton on 23 June, indicating that the execution order had been sent from London at least a couple of days before that.

Rivers’s will is a conventional one, in which Anthony is concerned with paying his debts, righting any wrongs he might have done, such as to Lady Willoughby, providing for the poor, and attending to the welfare of his soul. Perhaps anticipating that he would be brought south and given the trial in front of his peers that was his right as an earl, he asked that if he died beyond the River Trent, he be buried before Our Lady of Pewe at Westminster. 

Crowland is adamant that Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan were beheaded ‘without any form of trial’ under the supervision of Sir Richard Ratcliffe, who was leading Gloucester’s army south to London. John Rous, on the other hand, claims that Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, was their chief judge. No records of their indictments or trial, if there were any, have survived, nor is there any indication of who besides Northumberland sat in judgement of the trio. One is inclined to suspect that any process must have been summary even by contemporary standards; certainly nothing indicates that a jury of peers was summoned to try Rivers, as was his right under Magna Carta. 

– Susan Higginbotham -  The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England’s Most Infamous Family

#poor bae :((( #anthony woodville #the white queen #british history #history #15th century #today in history 

ohfairmaidenofyork:

♔ The will of Elizabeth Woodville + mentions of her beloved ones

8th of June 1492: Elizabeth Woodville dies at  Bermondsey Abbey

#elizabeth woodville #the white queen #women in history #15th century #british history 

juanborgja:

GET TO KNOW ME: 1/5 favourite tv shows

 → The White Queen (2013)

“The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.”

#the white queen #q 

marthajefferson:

SOULMATES-FINDING-EACH-OTHER MODERN AU  ||  Henry Tudor x Elizabeth Plantagenet

“ in greek mythology, it’s said that humans were originally created with four arms and four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate beings, condemning them to spend their lives in search for their other halves. Of course none of that really happened, but that’s not the point. The idea of a second halve is the ancient Greek version of a soul mate. “ –Plato, Symposium

#henry x elizabeth #henry vii #elizabeth of york #modern au #twq au #the white queen #q 

chancehouse:

get to know me [4/?] tv shows. the white queen 

Let me tell you, child, that only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

#the white queen #q