This month sees our Chair talk about local girl made good, Elizabeth Woodville of Grafton. The widow who married a king, the mother of the Princes in the Tower, and subject of the hit TV series “The White Queen”, she remains a controversial figure.
The first commoner to marry a king since the Norman Conquest she was Edward IV’s queen throughout the second half of the Wars of the Roses. She experienced both the highs of Royal life and the lows of hiding in Sanctuary. She was declared an adulterous and her children were bastardised, but she became the only English queen whose daughter would also marry a king of England. But how much of what we all know is true, and can we really understand her life and actions?
Tickets are now available on the Society’s Ticket Source page: https://www.ticketsource.com/northantsbattles. These are free to Northamptonshire Battlefields Society members, £5 to non-members. Talks are held at Delapre Abbey. Doors open about 7:00pm, with the meeting starting at 7:30pm. Entry is through the Orangerie Restaurant.
Tea and coffee will be available before hand, provided by the Abbey volunteers. Please make an appropriate donation.
These tickets are for personal attendance at Delapre Abbey ONLY. Members joining in by Zoom do not need to book a ticket.
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