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Elizabeth of York, born Princess Elizabeth of England. Daughter of Edward IV, King of England and Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England. Sister of Edward V, King of England and Richard, Duke of York commonly known as the Princes in the Tower. Niece of Richard III, King of England. On the assumed deaths of her brothers she was accepted as the Yorkist heiress. Wife of Henry VII, King of England - the Lancastrian heir, uniting the houses - making her Queen Consort of England and the first Tudor consort. Mother to Arthur, Prince of Wales, Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Henry VIII, King of England and Mary, Queen of France.

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Catherine of Valois, Princess of France. Later Queen of England then Dowager Queen of England and mother to Henry VI, King of England. Her second marriage was to Owen Tudor. She was also mother to Edmund, Earl of Richmond and Jasper, Duke of Bedford and Earl of of Pembroke. Through Edmund she was the grandmother of Henry VII, King of England the first Tudor King.

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Anne Boleyn was the second wife and consort of Henry VIII, King of England and the mother of Elizabeth I, Queen of England. Before her marriage Henry appointed her the Marquess of Pembroke which was a title associated with his paternal line.

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Frances was the first daughter born to Mary, Dowager Queen of France and Princess of England and her second husband, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, later becoming their eldest living child from the union. Through her mother, she was the niece of the sitting King, Henry VIII of England and granddaughter of Henry VII, King of England and Elizabeth of York, Queen of England. She grew up in her Uncle's court and was close in age to the King's eldest daughter, the future Mary I and Margaret Douglas, the future Countess of Lennox. Frances is best known in history as the wife of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, the mother of Jane Grey, disputed Queen Regnant of England, Katherine Grey, and Mary Grey. Her claim to the throne was glossed over in the Device for the Succession 1553 by Edward VI, King of England.

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Henry VIII and his daughter The Lady Mary arguably out of all his relationships (bar maybe his second wife) was the most changeable and temperamental during his life. During her early life, she was treated as heir presumptive and doted on by Henry, who was described by him as "the pearl of the world". When it became clear that her mother could not produce a male heir, Henry sought to dissolve their marriage. During this time, he became infatuated with Mary's mother's lady-in-waiting, and, after much deliberation, broke with the Catholic church and, in turn, created his own church. He obtained his divorce and declared his marriage invalid. Making Mary illegitimate and displacing her from the line of succession in favour of heirs from his second marriage, regardless of sex. Mary's parents' marriage was still seen as valid by Catholicdom. It was during the long years of obtaining a divorce that he split up Mary and her mother, with them never seeing each other. During her father's second marriage, she refused to take the oath of supremacy, which acknowledged the invalidity of her parents' marriage (and her own illegitimacy) and her father as head of the church in England. After the downfall of his second wife and the displacement of his second daughter (by his second marriage), she signed the oath willingly in hopes of being reunited with her father and his third wife. During her father's third marriage, she became a confidant of her stepmother and was welcomed back into the fold. Because of this, she was appointed the godmother of her half-brother, the long-awaited heir. She also became one of the - maybe the only - champions of her half-sister after her displacement during her father's third and fourth marriages. Mary was a strong supporter of the Catholic religion, with many of her supporters being executed by her father. Depending on who her father was married to depended on how her father treated her, with even his final wife coming from her own court. It was during his sixth marriage that Mary was reinstated to the succession, becoming second in line to the throne. It is said that her father's treatment of her (and her mother) and his break from Rome were one of the reasons her reign played out the way it did; many say her sister was their father's daughter in many ways, but we could also say this about Mary with their gentle and emotional temperaments and their need for absolute destruction of those that had wronged them.

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Catherine Woodville was the youngest child born to Richard Woodville, 1st Earl of Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Dowager Duchess of Bedford (and at one time the second most important lady in the realm and the Lancastrian faction). Catherine was the sister of the Queen Consort of England Elizabeth Woodville, who was the wife of the first Yorkist King Edward IV. Because of her sister's marriage, she was one of the Queen's many sisters married off to secure alliances. At the age of seven, she was married off to Henry Stafford, who was later the Duke of Buckingham and was related to the Beaufort family (and in turn, Henry VII's mother Margaret). Through her first marriage, she was the mother of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (later executed by her great-nephew Henry VIII) and Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon (assumed mistress of Henry VIII). Her husband was executed by Richard III for a failed rebellion which included Margaret Beaufort and her son, Henry Tudor. By her sister, she was the maternal aunt of Elizabeth of York, Princess and then Queen of England, consort to Henry VII, King of England. When Henry VII won the throne, Catherine was married to the King's uncle, Jasper, now Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke, as part of a series of marriages between Lancastarian men and York women, making her one of the senior women of the court. Unfortunately, this marriage did not produce any issue.

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The start of the Tudor dynasty was solidified by the marriage of Henry VII, King of England, who won the battle of Bosworth with his Lancastrian forces, and the Yorkist Princess Elizabeth, who was the eldest living daughter and child of Edward IV, King of England, the first Yorkist King. A marriage that started as an alliance between two warring factions (and two meddling mothers-in-law) developed into a deep mutual love and affection, producing seven children, with three reaching adulthood. He is one of the Kings of England to have no acknowledged mistress during his marriage which during an age of Kings having mistresses is a rare feat. On the death of their eldest son and heir, both were visibly distraught and consoled and comforted each other in their joint grief. When Elizabeth died Henry shut himself for days refusing to speak to anyone, with her death the warmth and gaiety left the court, leaving us with the miser Henry VII, King of England, known to popular historical imagination. The six years between their deaths Henry did not remarry and would later be buried with her sharing a joint tomb.

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Margaret Douglas was the only child born to Margaret, Dowager Queen of Scotland and Princess of England and her second husband Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. Through her mother she was the half-sister of the sitting King of Scotland, James V, also through her mother, she was the niece of the sitting King of England, Henry VIII and the granddaughter of Henry VII, King of England and Elizabeth of York, Queen of England. She grew up in her Uncle's court and was close in age to the King's eldest daughter, the future Mary I and Frances Brandon, the future Duchess of Suffolk. Margaret is best known in history as the Countess of Lennox by her marriage to Matthew, 4th Earl of Lennox, and being the mother of Henry, Lord Darnley, King Consort of Scotland, making her the mother-in-law of her half-niece Mary, Queen Regnant of Scotland (commonly known as Mary, Queen of Scots) and grandmother of James VI of Scotland and I of England. She is the ancestress of all monarchs from then on of England, Scotland and then Britain.