As the daughter of a king, her life was never her own. But after the death of her second husband in 1499,

she married for love, only to lose the lavish life she had always known.

The Tudor's Dynasty podcast. Born on the 20th of March, 1469 to King Edward V. 4th and Elizabeth Woodville,

Cecily Plantagenet, or Cecily of York, was the second daughter of the king and queen.

She was most likely named for her paternal grandmother, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York.

Cecily's elder sister, Elizabeth of York, often overshadows her sisters, since she was

Queen Consort to Henry the 7th, and mother, as well as grandmother, of each subsequent

tutor monarch. But today, I'm hoping to give you some information you did not know about this

lesser-known Plantagenet princess.

From an early age, Elizabeth of York was promised for greatness.

But before she became Queen Consort of England, she had been promised in marriage to a French prince

and heir to the French throne, future Charles the 8th of France. But Elizabeth

wasn't the only York princess promised to a king. Her younger sister, Cecily, was promised to the

son of King James III of Scotland. Future James the 4th. In July 1474, the negotiations between the two kingdoms began, and by October,

they were concluded, and it was agreed upon that Edward IV would pay part of his daughter's

dowry to the King of Scotland. In advance. Due to the young ages of the couple, if Edward the fourth wished for the marriage not to be

consummated and things did not work out, the prepaid dowry would be repaid to the King of England.

And in June 1482, the King of England began negotiations with Alexander, Duke of Albany, second son of King James

II, who had been calling himself King of Scotland, which among other things Alexander pledged

himself to Edward in support of his interests. The men had created the Treaty of F Fatheringay, which stated in the event of

Alexander's establishing himself on the throne of Scotland and having cleared himself of other

women, in accordance with the Christian Church, because he was already married to a French

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