Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woma
n. Heiress to the royal House of York, she schemed to marry Richard III, the man
who had deposed and probably killed her brothers, and it is possible that she t
hen conspired to put Henry Tudor on the throne. Yet after marriage to Henry VII,
which united the royal houses of Lancaster and York, a picture emerges of a mod
el consort - mild, pious, generous and fruitful.
