7 thoughts on “WCW: Elizabeth of York

  1. Whole lotta Renfair going on there. And the gold plates and chargers in that banquet scene are straight out of the Dollar Store…

  2. You are not wrong. By all accounts Elizabeth was as unpolitical as it was possible for a queen consort to be. Some foreign diplomats thought she was being held down but given her traumatic childhood and youth it might very well have been her own choice to focus on giving her children a secure home.

    1. I agree. Elizabeth’s youth sounded painful: living part of her life in sanctuary; enduring the loss of her father, uncle, and brothers; and then being sold off to an obscure Welshman without good claim to the throne. Apart from that gable hood, her costumes look just terrible. (And what is PFG’s Henry VII doing in a beard?! And thanks for yet another mention of “Philippa Fucking Gregory,” which always makes my husband and me giggle.)

      1. For me Henry’s ability trumps any flaw in his claim. And Elizabeth was by all accounts very happy with him and he loved her dearly.

      2. Strictly speaking, His Late Majesty King Henry VII had a claim to the throne quite as strong as that of William the Conqueror and Edward IV himself – the man (and his followers) kept winning battles.

  3. The funeral effigy is more than a little creepy, but then again, you can kinda really see the real woman that she must have been.

    The jewel encrusted gable hood is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous, but must have weighed a ton.

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