Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (78 page)

Katherine of Aragon, portrait by Miguel Sittow
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. 1505. Arthur “had never felt so much joy in his life as when he beheld the sweet face of his bride.” (
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Henry VII and Elizabeth of York kneeling with all their “illustrious progeny” before St. George. Votive altarpiece of
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. 1503–9, Flemish School. (
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Elizabeth and her four daughters. Nineteenth-century copy of a lost panel painting related to the St. George altarpiece. (
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Henry and Elizabeth and their children in “The Ordinances of the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception,” dating from March 1503. (
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Henry and Elizabeth and their children from an early sixteenth-century genealogy of the kings of England. (
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Reconstruction of Hampton Court as it was when Elizabeth visited in 1502 and 1503. (
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Raglan Castle, Wales, where Elizabeth stayed on her long progress of 1502. (
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The Minoresses Convent at Aldgate, after the fire of 1797. Elizabeth was in touch with her kinswoman, the Abbess, when she visited the Tower in 1502, at the time Sir James Tyrell probably confessed to murdering her brothers, the Princes in the Tower. (
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“Merciful God, this is a strange reckoning.” The Queen’s lodgings at the Tower of London, where Elizabeth died, are clearly marked to the right of the White Tower on this plan of 1597 (detail). (
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Elizabeth’s son, the future Henry VIII mourns her passing. “Never since the death of my dearest mother hath there come to me more hateful intelligence.” (
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Remains of the wooden effigy of Elizabeth of York carried at her funeral: “a image or personage like a queen, clothed in the very robes of estate of the Queen.” (
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The funeral of Elizabeth of York. “From Mark Lane to Temple Bar alone were five thousand torches, besides lights burning before all the parish churches.” (
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“This sumptuous sepulchre”: The Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey, with the tomb of Henry and Elizabeth in the center. (
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