The Devastating Life Of Queen Anne Neville, The Kingmaker’s Daughter D
in 1483 Anne Neville was crowned Queen of England yet in mere months it would all unravel her only son died the next year leaving England without an air Anne was devastated but her nightmare was just beginning an Neville was born in a time of chaos the wars of the Roses had just begun and the end was nowhere in sight in fact Anne would never see peace in her entire life and to make matters worse Anne’s father father was right in the middle of the action it’s hard to stay out of the conflict when your father is the infamous King maker Anne’s father was Richard Neville the 16th Earl of Warick today he’s known as the king maker for his role in helping not just one but two separate men claim the Throne of England her dad may have been one of the most important men in England but Anne’s mother was no slouch herself Anne’s mother and deam was one of the wealthiest women in the entire Kingdom and that made her inheritance very
interesting to anyone who wanted power in England thanks to her ruthless father and her extravagant mother men would be fighting over Anne Neville for her entire life under normal circumstances an Neville and her older sister Isabelle would barely have seen a scent of their parents’ vast Estates but one fact changed everything the couple never had a son as Isabelle and Anne Grew Older Anne actually had a Charmed childhood hidden away at the luxurious middleham Castle it was here that she came across two young men men with whom the rest of her life would be inextricably linked their names were Richard and George but it was their last name that mattered York the Nevels were distantly related to the rebellious Richard Duke of York the man many believed would become king by the time the wars of the Roses were over as such York sent his two youngest sons Richard and George to live in train at middleham Castle there the two boys came to know the sisters Anne and Isabelle very well in just a few years time each of the brothers would marry
one of the sisters and yet all of their Unions would end horribly now any plans that the king maker and the Duke of York had went up in smoke in 1460 when the Duke lost his life in battle against the forces of his Nemesis the Mad King Henry V 6 it seems like maybe the Duke’s end might mean the wars of the Roses were over but no the yorkist rose up yet again and deposed Henry making the Duke’s eldest son King Edward IV if the war ended with the Duke of York maybe Anne Neville could have had a normal life but instead she was in for a roller coaster ride in 1469 and sister Isabelle married the king’s brother George the same George who had spent his childhood at the Neville’s Castle it seem like a completely obvious match but these were uncertain times while a king maker had been Edward’s greatest Ally in his rise to the throne everything changed once Edward became king the king maker found himself being pushed aside and he wouldn’t stand for it in a move that completely shocked all of England
Richard Neville Anne’s father had Anne engaged to the Mad King Henry’s son Edward of Westminster fed up with the King he helped make Neville completely switched sides and joined the enemy the wars of the Roses started right back up again and this time Anne found herself right in the middle of it Edward of Westminster had been living in France with his mother when an and her father sailed across the English Channel to meet up with them and in 1470 and Neville married Edward as long as everything went according to the kingmaker’s plan the two of them would be king and queen of England before long but to say things didn’t go according to the plan would be an understatement in a strange twist of fate Anne Neville and her sister Isabelle found themselves on the exact opposite side of the wars of the Roses thanks to their respective husbands at this time Anne’s new father-in-law the deposed King Henry V 6 was locked up in the Tower of London not long after Anne and Edward’s wedding the whole gang set sail for England to free the king and put him back on the throne but
unfortunately there’s one thing that the king maker didn’t account for Richard Neville thought he had one Ace in the Hole his son-in-law George King Edward IV’s brother George resented his brother almost as much as Neville did and so Neville assumed that George would back him up but the thing is George wanted the throne for himself he wasn’t about to help the king maker put crazy old Henry V 6 back on the throne an’s marriage to Henry’s son sealed it George realized Neville would never help him become king so he abandoned the king maker and re rejoined his brother now the English Countryside broke out into open conflict once again and this time the kingmaker’s luck had finally run out his forces met King Edwards on the field at the Battle of Barnett and it was an utter disaster Richard Neville an’s father lost his life in the fry but after Barnett came the battle of tuxbury the first time Anne lost her father and this time she lost her husband the king’s forces slew Prince Edward in
battle and suddenly Anne found herself in terrible danger King Edward’s forces took Anne prisoner after the battle that couldn’t have been a comfortable place to be after all her father had betrayed the yorkists and her husband had been their sworn enemy’s son but remember how an stood to inherit one of the biggest Fortunes in all of England this would end up saving her hide the king didn’t really know what to do with an after he’ captured her she was the lancastrian prince’s Widow and daughter of the hated King maker but there was still all that money to be had he ended up leaving her with his brother George at first first that seems ideal after all George’s wife was Anne’s sister Isabelle but if George Duke of Clarence had his way Anne never would have seen the light of day again with her out of the picture that meant his wife Isabelle would inherit their mother’s entire Fortune but Anne Neville was an important woman and the world wasn’t about to forget about her countless men across England probably wanted her hand in marriage and one of those men was none other than George’s
own brother Richard who had spent time with Anne at midlum Castle when they were younger Richard Richard of Glouchester was King Edward IV’s youngest brother that left him well out of the running to be king but Richard was probably one of the most ruthless men in the history of England when he wanted something he got it so when he set his eyes on Anne Neville nothing in the world could stop him from getting her Richard desperately wanted Anne’s hand in marriage but he was going to have to fight for it his oldest brother the king didn’t want him marrying the king Maker’s daughter the Middle Brother George wanted the inheritance all to himself both of them pulled out all the stops to try to make sure Richard never got within a 100 ft of Anne but they underestimated their cunning brother so much for sisterly love Isabel was right there with her husband George and trying to make sure no one ever saw Anne again the couple pled to hide an away in a nunnery for the rest of her life but Richard of Glouchester couldn’t be stopped According to some accounts George and Isabelle went so far as to
force an to live as a servant working discreetly in a London kitchen to hide her from Richard’s gaze you even if it’s true it didn’t make a difference in the end Richard of Glouchester managed to track Anne down and escort her to a sanctuary at the church of St Martin’s LR where George her sister or even the king couldn’t get to her once Richard had found an he did something no one expected he actually agreed to give up most of her inheritance he told his brother that if he consented to their marriage he’d renounce his rights to an’s most lucrative lands and properties if nothing else this seemed to prove that Richard actually loved an but with Richard there was always more than there seemed even after all the work Richard put in to finally marry an they still had to keep the whole Affair shrouded in secrecy we still don’t know when exactly they tied the knot but we know that by the spring of 1472 an and Richard were officially husband and wife Now official records claim that an’s first husband Edward of Westminster lost his life at
the Battle of tuxbury but he might have met a much darker end many in England thought that Richard of Glouchester had personally chased the prince to the doors of tuxbury Abbey the church was supposed to offer Sanctuary for anyone within but that couldn’t stop a man like Richard if you believe the stories Richard stormed into the ABY and personally cut down Edward of Westminster an’s Twisted love life was even more messed up than it seemed not only were Anne and Richard not so distantly related but since Edward and Richard were cousins by Blood many in the church believed that it was immoral for Anne and Richard to Mary their intertwined family tree meant that Richard needed to get special permission from the pope to Mary an but of course nothing can be that simple everyone knew that Richard needed the Pope’s blessing to marry an but what we don’t know is whether or not he actually got it though some accounts claim they received permission there’s no actual record of it down the line there is every possibility that Richard enemies could use this fact against him but their marriage would implode long before anyone got the chance now once married
an and Richard settled into their childhood home at midm Castle where they’d first met so many years ago King Edward made Richard governor of the north and an’s life finally saw some level of Peace about a year after their marriage Richard and Anne welcomed a child as if names weren’t already confusing enough during the wars of the Roses they named him Edward Edward of middleham came from some seriously tough stock his grandfather was the king maker his father was the Burley Richard of Glouchester and his uncle was the Towering King Edward IV unfortunately none of that sha through with young Edward he was a sickly boy from the very beginning the couple must have hoped their boy would grow stronger as he got older but instead he only got worse now all the fighting between an and Isabelle had been on account of their mother and de bosam but it’s not like Anne was dead or anything ever since her husband lost his life in battle she’d hold herself up where King Edward couldn’t come for her she hoped that time would heal all wounds and eventually King Edward would
let her reclaim her Estates now remember how Richard claimed he didn’t want anything to do with and de Bam’s vast Fortune turns out that wasn’t exactly true Richard played the part of the kind son of in-law rescuing an de bosam but with Richard of Glouchester there was always a reason with the Elder Anne under his watchful eye at midm he could make sure that he got her lucrative inheritance I’m sure that George and Isabelle would have had something to say about that but in the end it wouldn’t matter Isabelle passed in 1476 from complications and childbirth Isabelle had plotted to make sure that Anne didn’t receive their mother’s inheritance and yet she didn’t even live long enough to see it an’s brother-in-law George of Clarence spent his entire life shaming and plotting and it finally came back to bite him in the end George had rebelled against his brother King Edward countless times over the years but in 1478 George ran out of luck Edward’s merciful streak ended and he had George executed and must have had at least some affection for her sister and brother-in-law after both Isabelle
and George passed Anne took in their children for a time one of the kids that Anne took in would grow up to become the infamous Margaret pole who dared to cross Henry VII and ended up paying for it with her life If Anne showed some fondness for Isabelle and George by taking in their children Richard completely canel out that kindness According to some stories Richard personally saw to his own brother’s execution that’s bad enough but how he did it is truly disturbing he had his own brother drowned in a cask of wine Now by 1483 the wars of the Roses had been over for a decade King Edward IV held the throne securely at the time and he had two healthy Sons to inherit it so when Edward suddenly passed it may have shocked England but no one panicked at least this time it seemed like the transition would become smooth and simple but you’re not accounting for an’s husband Richard the man who always got what he wanted in what turned out to be a horrible mistake King Edward made his brother Richard Lord protector when he passed basically Richard was supposed
to look after the country while his 12-year-old nephew the new King Edward V came of age Richard wasn’t about to let his snotty nephews take the throne that should have been his he wanted that CR and he pulled one of the most twisted stuns in the history of England to get it poor Edward V never even got the chance to be king Richard brought Edward and his younger brother to the Tower of London for protection then promptly threw away the key Edward ivth wasn’t even cold yet and Richard dealt him a chilling betrayal he had his brother’s marriage invalidated declared that his nephews were illegitimate and made himself King Richard III instead Against All Odds the king Maker’s daughter had become the Queen of England as for Richard’s nephews no one ever saw them again again the world remembers them as the tragic princes in the tower and historians widely agree that Richard eventually had the both of them secretly executed Richard and Anne officially became the king and queen of England on July 6th 1483 the Archbishop of Canterbury crowned them both in a joint
ceremony one of the most extravagant coronations England has ever seen almost every single Noble in England showed up for the spectacle however amongst all the glitz and glamour there was one glaring absence their son Edward of midem the new heir to the throne of England was nowhere to be seen at his parents coronation Edward had been a sickly baby and by now he’d grown into a sickly boy on the big day he was too ill to make it out and face the crowds after their ridiculously extravagant coronation an and Richard went on tour they traveled all across England to show the kingdom their new monarchs maybe they had hoped that all of this would make the country forget about the princes in the tower and accept them as the rightful king and queen now in April 1484 the day Anne had been fearing for a decade finally came her feeble son Edward suddenly passed no one knows exactly what happened to him but no one was surprised when it happened Edward was living on borrowed time since the day he was born and the reaper had finally come for him Edward spent much
of his life living in the country at midan Castle his parents hoped that keeping him away from the hustle and bustle of the city would finally bring his strength to him but it never came in a cruel twist of fate an and Richard were actually on route to midem to visit their son when they heard the news he was gone if he’d held out for just a few more days they could have said goodbye but they didn’t make it to say the news hit them hard would be an understatement the loss of young Edward understandably left an and Edward absolutely devastated after she lost her son an focused all of her devotion on her nephew George and Isabelle’s son Edward Richard had lost his heir to the throne but at least Anne could still have a boy to love and Dot upon but it wasn’t enough the loss of her son hit Anne hard her nephew couldn’t told the void that young Edward had left and within months of the boy’s loss an started fading away perhaps she had simply lost the will to live but from the moment she lost her boy Anne’s days were numbered just months after Edward of midlum passed an Neville
joined her son in the afterlife based on contemporary accounts modern historians believe it was tuberculosis but it was clearly more than that she was only 28 years old in the prime of her life but in the blink of an eye she was gone illness may have claimed her but it seemed that and had simply lost the will to live now if you enjoyed this video do hit the like button and if you’re interested in more historical stories like this one make sure to subscribe
