![]() Following the defeat at Wakefield, she had been in the ‘custody’ of her sister Anne, Duchess of Buckingham, but now she sent her two youngest sons, Richard and George, to Utrecht under the protection of Philip the Good, whose son their sister Margaret would eventually marry. In England, though, grieving for her husband and second son, with her eldest boy Edward, Earl of March, leading an army of his own, Cecily of York took steps to protect her babies. At a remove from the action in Calais, Anne would have been unaware just how critical the situation in London had become, although her mother’s sympathies must have been roused by the plight of York’s widow and children perhaps their prayers were also extended to them in the castle chapel. Now aged four and a half, Anne was suddenly the daughter of the most powerful man in England, on whose shoulders rested the responsibility of defending the City of London and guarding King Henry VI, while the queen’s pillaging troops marched south. ![]() ![]() The fortunes of those four babies born in the 1450s had fluctuated as the rivalry between Lancaster and York de epened. Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.Īnne’s world, and that of her contemporaries, was changing. See, see! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss, Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun ![]() Extract– ANNE NEVILLE, RICHARD III’S TRAGIC QUEEN ![]()
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