It's late summer 1487. In a chamber at Wingfield Manor, Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk, sits by a leaded window, the air heavy with the scent of beeswax and damp stone. News has just arrived from Nottinghamshire. The rebels who had rallied around the boy pretender Lambert Simmel have been routed at the Battle of Stoke Field.

Her eldest son, John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, is dead on the field.

He had been the Yorkist Hope, the standard bear for their cause after the disappearance of the princes.

And now his body lies somewhere along the mud

and blood, stripped by soldiers loyal to Henry the 7th. Elizabeth knows what this means. The new

Tudor King has been on the throne for less than two years, but already he is tightening the net around

her family. She has other sons, Edmund, Richard,

William, and now each one will live under suspicion. Their lives balanced on the knife edge

between clemency and execution. It is not a new sensation for her. She has been a royal

daughter, sister to two kings, and wife to a duke. But in the

game of thrones that has consumed England for decades, titles have never been shields. The

Yorkist age is ending, and for the women who bear its blood, the danger will not end with this

battle.

Music its blood, the danger will not end with this battle. Hello, friend, and welcome back to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the

Agora podcast network and the original Tudor History podcast telling stories of Tudor England

since 2009. I am, as always, delighted that you are here with me today. We are going to talk about

the sisters of Edward V. Fourth and Richard the third and what happened to their children,

because that is quite a saga. We've talked about different parts of them before in different

episodes. I've done some episodes on like the Dela Pohl's. We talk a lot about Margaret

Poll, of course, is very famous. She's not related or she's not directly from one of the

sisters, but from the Duke of

Clarence. But, you know, we've kind of done ancillary things, the Courtney family. We've talked about

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