Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437–1492) was queen of England as the wife of Edward IV. Her first husband, the Lancastrian John Grey, died at the Second Battle of St Albans in 1461. Her secret marriage to Edward IV in 1464 became a cause célèbre. Her relatives' advancement drove Warwick to rebellion, and in 1469 he had her father and brother executed.

After Edward IV's death in 1483, her son Edward V was deposed by Richard III and disappeared. Elizabeth helped secure Henry VII's accession in 1485, and her daughter Elizabeth of York married Henry in 1486.