Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (77 page)

Fotheringhay Castle, a Yorkist stronghold since 1377 (modern reconstruction). (
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The Paradise Bed, perhaps commissioned by Derby for the visit of the King and Queen to Lathom or Knowsley in 1495. (
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Lathom House, the seat of Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby, and Margaret Beaufort, where Henry and Elizabeth stayed in 1495. “There is something so particular and romantic in the general situation of this house.” (
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Margaret Tudor, Elizabeth’s eldest daughter, in 1503. (
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The tomb of Elizabeth’s second daughter and namesake in Westminster Abbey. “Atropos, most merciless messenger of death, snatched her away” at the age of three. (
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Elizabeth’s “fair sweet son,” the future Henry VIII, in infancy. (
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“A delightful small, new rose, worthy of its stock.” Terra-cotta bust of a laughing child, possibly Prince Henry, by Guido Mazzoni,
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. 1498. (
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Elizabeth of York, a portrait possibly painted in 1502, the year that may have witnessed a rift between the King and Queen. (
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Henry VII in later life: “a dark prince and infinitely suspicious.” Terra-cotta bust by Pietro Torrigiano,
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. 1509–11. (
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Stained-glass windows depicting Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, dating from
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. 1537–40 and based on the Whitehall mural. (
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Elizabeth of York, detail from Remigius van Leemput’s copy of Hans Holbein’s lost Whitehall Palace mural of 1537. (
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Richmond Palace, “this earthly and second paradise of England,” built by Henry VII to showcase the Tudor dynasty. Drawing by Anthony van Wyngaerde, 1555. (
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“The delight of the Britons” and “the glorious hope of the realm”: Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, artist unknown,
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. 1520. (
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