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The women behind the Crown: Influential Queen Mothers - Cecily Neville

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8th October 2014
<![CDATA[Our journey of influential queen mothers continues with Cecily Neville, the mother of two King’s of England. Cecily was born in 1415 with royal lineage that linked her to John of Gaunt, King Henry IV and Edward III of England. By the age of nine she was betrothed to Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, whom she married five years later. Cecily’s journey to motherhood began in…
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The women behind the Crown: Influential Queen Mothers – Katherine of Aragon

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14th August 2014
<![CDATA[“She could quite easily take the field, muster a great army, and wage against me a war as fierce as any her mother Isabella ever wages in Spain”. – Henry VIII Some readers may question why I have decided to include Katherine of Aragon in this blog series on prominent Queen Mothers, possibly because she never actually lived to see her only-surviving child, Mary, ascend to the…
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