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Cecily of York (20 March 1469 – 24 August 1507), also known as Cecelia, [2] was the third daughter of King Edward IV of England and his queen consort Elizabeth Woodville. Shortly after the death of her father and the usurpation of the throne by her uncle King Richard III, Cecily and her siblings were declared illegitimate.
- She Was Born Into Battle
- Her Family Ran For Their Lives
- She Was A Pauper Princess
- She Survived by The Skin of Her Teeth
- She Was A Baby Bride
- She Was in Bed with The Enemy
- She Was in The Middle of A Royal Fight
- She Had A Very Public Breakup
- She Lost Her Father
- Her Family Was in Grave Danger
When Cecily was born in 1469, she came into the world as a Princess of England. After all, her father was King Edward IV and her mother was the renowned beauty Queen Elizabeth Woodville. But from the beginning, something was seriously wrong.In truth, Cecily didn’t inherit a shining realm, oh no. Instead, she was princess to a crumbling kingdom. The...
Back before Cecily was born, her father Edward had deposed the old King Henry VI—and when Cecily was just a year old, it came back to bite the royal family in the butt. In 1470, the disgraced Henry played tit for tat, gathering supporters and completely ousting Edward, who had to flee to the continent for safety. In an instant, little Cecily’s life...
With her father gone and her royal titles in serious jeopardy, Cecily spent her toddler years in “sanctuary” in Westminster with her mother, hoping that the storm would blow over. It was a nightmarish existence in more ways than one.At the time, Cecily had two older sisters and her mother was heavily pregnant with another child, but the vulnerable ...
After six excruciating months, Cecily’s father finally pushed himself back onto the English throne, reinstating the family and turning the tables once again. On top of that, Cecily’s mother gave birth to a baby boy, also named Edward, and then later to a son named Richard. With these surprising turns of events, the happy fate of the Yorks seemed se...
No sooner was Cecily back as a Princess of England than her father started making big plans for her. In yet another bid to solidify the family’s power, he betrothed her to James, the Duke of Rothesay, the son of the current King James III of Scotland. This was utterly scandalous.Yes, both Cecily and James were only a handful of years old at the tim...
Although Cecily’s betrothal to the Scottish noble earned her the rather fetching title of “Princess of Scots” for much of her young life, Scotland itself was none too pleased with England’s grand plans for their royal daughter. They didn’t like London encroaching on their freedoms at the best of times, and this seemed a bridge too far. Maybe that’s...
In 1481, Cecily turned 12…and nearly kick-started another war. See, 12 was considered prime marrying age for girls at the time, because everybody knows a 12-year-old can carry a child to term. Accordingly, Scotland’s King James thought it was high time for King Edward to cart his daughter over the border to get hitched, and he started sending some ...
In 1482, the one constant in Cecily’s life shattered. Although she had spent most of her life as the “Princess of Scots,” that year England and Scotland got into an enormous political spat, and Cecily’s father retaliated by breaking off her engagement. Yeah, you read that right: Cecily’s own father used her as a pawn in a disastrous 15th-century ga...
In 1483, when Cecily was just coming to her teenage years, the worst disaster the girl had ever seen hit her family.Her father Edward died, throwing the Yorks into a state of utter turmoil for the second time in Cecily’s short life. Sure, Cecily’s younger brother Edward became Edward V, ascending to the throne after his father. But oh boy, things d...
Both little Edward V and Cecily’s even youngerbrother Richard were painfully inexperienced and green. As a result, no one could save them from the wolves at the door—or rather, wolf. With Cecily and her family still mourning their father, her uncle Richard, the then-Duke of Gloucester, swept in and tried to finagle the throne for himself. The resul...
Jan 9, 2018 · Cecily of York was the third daughter of the first Yorkist king, Edward IV, and his consort Elizabeth Wydeville (Woodville). She was born on 20 March 1469 at Westminster Palace in London.
Cecily Neville, duchess of York (1415–1495), is among the most significant yet elusive figures of fifteenth-century English history. Born in the year of the Battle of Agincourt, granddaughter of John of Gaunt, wife and widow of Richard, duke of York, mother of kings Edward IV and Richard III, grandmother of the ill-starred Edward V and of ...
In June 2016, Starz announced the casting of Essie Davis as Dowager Queen Elizabeth, Jacob Collins-Levy as Henry VII, Suki Waterhouse as Cecily of York, Rebecca Benson as Margaret Plantagenet, and Joanne Whalley as Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy. [23]
Dec 4, 2018 · Cecily Duchess of York was, as Joanna Laynesmith highlights in her new biography, the only major protagonist, male or female, to live right through the eighty years of turmoil now commonly referred to as the Wars of the Roses.
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May 3, 2017 · On May 3, 2017 By RSB In The House of York. One of my favorite figures from the Wars of the Roses is Cecily Neville, Duchess of York who came very close to becoming England’s queen through her husband and ended up mother to two, Edward IV and Richard III.
