"Isabel Neville has been villainised by history as a woman of unending ambition, who sold two husband for a life of comfort. It's a blatantly unfair reputation of one of England's strongest survivors, who saved herself and her children from ruin repeatedly, pulled herself out of the wreckaged caused by greedy husbands, and ultimately died in a way few can claim during this time of history: asleep in her bed, of old age..."
- Isabel Neville: A Life of Sorrows by Christopher Jenk