She had, after all, grown up in far less commodious establishments: Raby was a palace-cum-fortress rebuilt almost a century before, with towers and apartments irregularly grouped around courtyards.ĭisguised as a kitchen maid: If that sounds too much like Cinderella in the fairy story, we should remember not only that Marguerite is supposed to have traveled disguised as a servant, but that in the turmoils of the 1440s Alice Chaucer had had to go to Norwich disguised “like a housewife of the country.” “sore moved” Sir John to sell her the place: Helen Castor, Blood and Roses: The Paston Family and the Wars of the Roses, 119. We might now phrase the comparison differently, but contemporaries clearly agreed.Ĭecily.
“womanly behaviour and the great constance”: Agnes Strickland’s early-Victorian Lives of the Queens of England wrote that Elizabeth’s “feminine helplessness” had produced a “tender regard” for her throughout the realm, in contrast to the effect produced by the “indomitable spirit” of Marguerite of Anjou. Margaret wrote a letter describing it to her mother-in-law and presumably also to her husband-who, however, was also getting erroneous news that Edward IV had been killed. Wanting to be the first to deliver the news back home, he took a boat after dinner, about noon, but was captured at sea by merchants of the Hanseatic League and carried to Zealand, where his story was quickly taken to Margaret of Burgundy at Ghent. A Norfolk man claimed to have seen the bodies of Warwick and Montague at St. His force met Warwick’s at Barnet: The reports of the battle serve as a good example of how news spread: The battle of Barnet started at dawn twelve miles outside London wild rumors were abroad early, and by ten the city was hearing tales of Edward’s victory, but these were disbelieved until, the Great Chronicle of London says, a rider raced through the streets displaying one of Edward’s own gauntlets, sent as a token to his queen.
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