Elizabeth Woodville - The White Queen Documentary

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If I married into a house and was surrounded by people that wanted me gone, I would certainly make sure every effort to place family members in position to support and protect my interests. It is "less" likely for family to betray you, your spouse, and children. I wouldn't call that grasping for power. Sounds like a better option than trying to befriend people that hate you.

I've read that Elizabeth Woodville is an ancestor of every British monarch from 1509 right up to today. Queen Elizabeth II is her 14X great-granddaughter. It's quite fascinating!

I have been waiting FOREVER for a documentary on Elizabeth Woodville!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

unique woman. Very determined survivor and very healthy bearing so many children who survived childhood.

The White Queen/The White Princess & The Spanish Priness TV series was one of the best ive seen.

It always annoys me that Elizabeth Woodville is called a commoner when her mother was of noble birth. Henry VII did not seem to consider himself to be a commoner even though his own father's father was a servant .

She didn't betrayed the House of York, Richard made the biggest mistake, thus she had no choice but to ally herself with her former allies, the House of Lancaster. Elizabeth Woodville was a strong-willed woman and, despite the fact that she believed that her sons will be safe, something that will not happen, she changed the course of history.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard about her “ eyes being heavy lidded like a dragon “ that’s an awesome description! I can almost see her blinking...

Elizabeth & Edward have my favorite story of all royal marriages. Im incredibly happy to see this, I never get tired of hearing this story!❤🖤

I descend from Elizabeth through her only living son, Thomas Grey, she will always be my favorite ancestor. One I am forever proud of!🤍🤍

Thank you for mentioning Jacquetta of Luxembourg. She's my 16x great gran and I find her fascinating. I think that I might be descended from Elizabeth Woodville through Leonard Grey her grandson, and Leonard's son Neill Grey. As a younger man, Leonard had asked Henry viii's ex-mistress Elizabeth Blount to marry him. Correspondence exists showing that he asked Thomas Cromwell to put in a good word for him. Elizabeth turned him down. Leonard was later in Ireland as governor under orders from Henry Viii, and Leonard seems to have made a match with an Irish noble woman, of the O'Neill clan. This was strictly outlawed by King Henry. Leonard's sister was married into Irish aristocracy, and let some of his nephews who were political 'criminals' evade English capture. Leonard was recalled back to England by Henry, arrested and beheaded around the time that Thomas Cromwell was. Neither man stood a chance. Leonard's nephews had been arrested, hanged, drawn and quartered. Correspondence exists showing that Neill Grey was asked secretly by Elizabeth 1's government, to work as a hitman to kill his half brother Sean O'Neill. He was trusted by Sean and able to get close to his older brother because he was given the position of official message bearer and mouthpiece. Because Irish historical documents have been damaged or destroyed, there are some gaps in my knowledge of family history.

i like the fact that the words "overly ambitious" were not used to describe her as some commoners are accused of being when they aspire to marry royalty

Great in depth view of both Elizabeth Woodville and also of of English history which she helped weave together and unfurl into the Tudor dynasty - will be watching more , thanks so much!

The white queen is one of my favorite shows EVER. Gotta watch it at least once a year since I’ve first seen it about 6 years ago

A couple of corrections: Elizabeth attended the reburial of her father- and brother-in-law in 1476, not 1466. She was probably pregnant at the time with her 3rd son George (b Mar 1477 and d 1479) but if so she would have only been a few weeks along and likely did not know. Also, at about 36 minutes, Anthony was not Elizabeth's son but her brother, Earl Rivers.

Please please do Anne Neville next. I love your videos and how you talk even about less known and popular people such as Elizabeth Woodville. Please can you do Anne Neville next, as there's sadly very few videos and no documentaries about her, and she's mostly forgotten. If you need someone to do the artwork, I could offer my services.

This is so cool, I loved all the Starz series on the Woodvilles

I think she must’ve been extremely beautiful & Edward was smitten (still took mistresses tho) if a king fell in love with you of course you would try n advance your families lives. It was just old aristocracy snobbery that hated to see “low” ppl rise.

Great video! I love Elizabeth Woodville, she's my favorite!