It looks as though Elizabeth had no option but to release her child into the hands of her enemies … I think she handed over a servant boy muffled up in a scarf. ibid.
The two boys in the Tower were never seen again. ibid.
July 6th 1483 in Westminster Abbey Richard had himself crowned King of England. At his side his wife Anne. Queen at last. ibid.
They were all using each other. ibid.
If Richard didn’t kill them, then who did? The other person with a clear motive was Elizabeth Beaufort. ibid.
The rumours were truly scandalous: that Richard was courting his niece the princess under the very nose of his wife. ibid.
Elizabeth Woodville gave her daughter in marriage to the family that may have killed her sons. ibid.
It was Margaret Beaufort who shaped the Tudor dynasty. ibid.
The wars of Religion shaped the Europe we live in today. In the sixteenth century religion and power were inextricably linked. At the time of the Renaissance the rulers of Europe’s most important nations fought each other violently in the name of God. The Real War of Thrones s2e1: The True History of Europe: Game of Queens 1542-1559
At the height of the Renaissance the young Queen of Scotland was forced to flee her homeland. The King of France had Europe on tenterhooks and kicked the English out of his kingdom. Meanwhile, the largest empire in the west was breaking apart. Europe was on the verge of thirty years of bloody warfare. ibid.
Henry II was 29 year old. A year earlier he succeeded his father Francis I to the French throne. Henry II was an ambitious, ruthless monarch whose main obsession was to gain revenge on his old arch-enemy Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. ibid.
The open war between Mary and Elizabeth was good for the King of France. ibid.