More on EoY

Here's a link to a Nerdalicious article by one Olga Hughes about Elizabeth of York as the perfect queen: http://nerdalicious.com.au/history/the-perfect-queen-elizabeth-of-york/ At the end is the promise of interviews with "three of Elizabeth's biographers, best-selling author Alison Weir, historian Amy Licence and Professor Arlene Okerlund." Best-selling author? Historian? At least, Hughes (whoever she is) didn't label Weir as a historian. ("A, not "an," is correct here in American English.) Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page for a picture of the young Elizabeth--really her younger brother Edward as depicted by Sir John Everett Millais (which, admittedly, becomes partially clear if you click on the link--the subject is given but not the painter or date of the painting, the impression given being that they really looked like that. And, of course, the Richard shown is the one from the Royal Collection. But I digress).

I suspect that most of us will take issue with the paragraph that begins, "Elizabeth of York was entirely beloved by her subjects. They had suffered along with her after the death of her father King Edward IV and the seizure of the throne by Richard III. They saw him depose her brothers, King Edward V and Richard Duke of York, and the whole of London mourned them when they disappeared" and the one that begins, "Elizabeth's successful and happy marriage has been taken from her. Henry Tudor's critics claim he kept her subjugated, short of money and allowed her no power of her own."

Clearly, Hughes believes the Tudor version of history as presented by Vergil, not only for Elizabeth but for her husband and her uncle. Oh, the wickedness of Richard and the joys of marriage to Henry Tudor!

Carol