Elizabeth of York was THE REAL WHITE PRINCESS and her life was just as dramatic as what you’ve seen on TV. Born in 1466 she was the daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, the sister of the Princes in the Tower and the niece of Richard III. Elizabeth’s life was shaped by the Wars of the Roses, the conflict between different branches of the Plantagenet family (the Yorks and the Lancasters) over who would hold the English throne. As a result she would see her father exiled, she and her mother and siblings would have to flee into exile in Westminster Abbey not once but twice, she would be declared illegitimate, her little brothers (Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York) would disappear at the hands of their uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and she would find herself married to the enemy; Henry Tudor, the man who defeated Richard at the Battle of Bosworth and knocked the male members of the York family off the throne for good. All this took place before her 20th birthday and had times been different, she would have become Queen Regnant as Elizabeth I, rather than just the wife of Henry VII. In this documentary from History Calling on the women of the Wars of the Roses, we look at the first half of the life of this extraordinary woman, from her birth, to her education, to the dangers she faced from her own extended family, the boys she was betrothed to in her youth, the rumours that she was going to marry her uncle Richard and how she became, against all odds, the first Tudor Queen of England.

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