Part 1 - Early 1483
.After being forced to sign the Treaty of Arras and consigning to France his daughter Margaret and a consistent part of his late wife‘s inheritance Maximilian decided to remarry to Elizabeth of York (niece of his stepmother-in-law, older sister of his son‘s fiancée and rejected bride of the Dauphin), signing an anti-French alliance with Edward IV. Elizabeth arrived in Burgundy from England at the beginning of February and married Maximilian a couple of months before her father’s death in April.
Then Edward V became formally King of England under the regency of his uncle the Duke of Gloucester, who captured him during the journey from the Wales to London (his half-brother Richard Grey and his uncle Anthony Rivers also were captured and killed on Gloucester’s order). Edward was taken to the Tower of London and Gloucester was able to persuade Queen Dowager Elizabeth to consign him also her younger son, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York and Norfolk who was escorted in the Tower together with his brother, while waiting for Edward’s coronation.
Then bishop Stillington confessed to Gloucester who he had married the late King Edward to the long dead lady Eleanor Talbot much before his secret wedding to the Dowager Queen Elizabeth and the hell exploded. Richard of Gloucester do not lose time in revealing that secret marriage, invalidating the wedding of Edward to Elizabeth Woodville and declaring their kids as illegitimate. As Edward, Earl of Warwick was excluded by the succession for his father’s attainder Richard proclame himself as legitimate King taking the name of Richard III and was crowned together with his wife Anne Neville, while their son Edward of Middleham was named Prince of Wales
Then Edward V became formally King of England under the regency of his uncle the Duke of Gloucester, who captured him during the journey from the Wales to London (his half-brother Richard Grey and his uncle Anthony Rivers also were captured and killed on Gloucester’s order). Edward was taken to the Tower of London and Gloucester was able to persuade Queen Dowager Elizabeth to consign him also her younger son, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York and Norfolk who was escorted in the Tower together with his brother, while waiting for Edward’s coronation.
Then bishop Stillington confessed to Gloucester who he had married the late King Edward to the long dead lady Eleanor Talbot much before his secret wedding to the Dowager Queen Elizabeth and the hell exploded. Richard of Gloucester do not lose time in revealing that secret marriage, invalidating the wedding of Edward to Elizabeth Woodville and declaring their kids as illegitimate. As Edward, Earl of Warwick was excluded by the succession for his father’s attainder Richard proclame himself as legitimate King taking the name of Richard III and was crowned together with his wife Anne Neville, while their son Edward of Middleham was named Prince of Wales
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