S3.38 Elizabeth Woodville

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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We move onto the Yorkist consorts with Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort to Edward IV. Originally a Lancastrian, she was an unlikely and controversial consort, who had to endure great hardship and loss through the Wars of the Roses, facing off against Margaret of Anjou, Warwick the Kingmaker and Richard III. Find out whether she can survive the Wars of the Roses and whether she is worthy of the Rex Factor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rex Factor!
0:10.0	This week, Elizabeth Woodville!
0:18.0	With your host, Graeme Duke and Aleepin.
0:25.0	Hello! Hello!
0:27.0	And welcome to Rex Factor, reviewing all the Queen of Prince Consortes of England from Ellsworth to Prince Philip.
0:33.0	Apologies for being off for a month, but we are now back.
0:35.0	And starting with the Yorkist Consortes beginning today, as you've heard, with Elizabeth Woodville.
0:40.0	Biography!
0:41.0	Elizabeth Woodville was born in about 1437 in Grafton, Regis in North Hamptonshire, the eldest of 14 children.
0:49.0	Woe! To Sir Richard Woodville and Jaketta of Luxembourg.
0:53.0	Her mother is a Princess of Luxembourg, descended from Charlemagne.
0:57.0	And she was originally married to Henry V's brother, the Duke of Bedford.
1:01.0	Oh, right.
1:02.0	So that, as she made Jaketta the most senior lady in England after the Queen.
1:06.0	Yeah, however, Elizabeth's father is nowhere near so grand, gentry, rather than the ability.
1:12.0	He served in the French Wars, but was the Duke of Bedford's Chamberlain.
1:15.0	Was that like a butlery?
1:17.0	Yeah.
1:18.0	When the Jaketta Bedford died in 1435, Sir Richard was charged with bringing Jaketta back to England,
1:23.0	but they fall in love on the way home and secretly get married.
1:26.0	So they just fell in love on a Baltic cruise?
1:28.0	Yes.
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