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Eliza has a baby, Margaret plots, and Maggie worries
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Elizabeth prays, Margaret plots, and Maggie cries
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Eliza prays, Margaret turns 50, and Elizabeth passes.
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Watch your fashion when you time travel.
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Eliza worries about her daughter and Margaret plot
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Who comes out on top?
A look back at the end of Elizabeth Woodville's later life
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Eliza has a baby, Margaret plots, Elizabeth passes, and Maggie has a baby
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It’s the 29th of September. The year is 1487. And England is holding her breath. This day? Michaelmas. The feast of angels, yes, but also of endings. Of wages paid. Of bread broken. Of women standing in doorways wondering if the frost will come too soon.
In November 1487, Queen Eliza, a Yorkist beauty, is crowned in Westminster Abbey, her golden gown symbolizing hope for a unified England. By 1489, she births Princess Margaret (Meg), named for Henry VII’s mother, Margaret Beaufort, bolstering the Tudor line. Margaret orchestrates her grandson Arthur’s investiture as Prince of Wales, a bold move to cement Tudor legitimacy amid Yorkist threats like Lambert Simnel. Elizabeth Woodville, exiled to Bermondsey, watches with pride and grief, haunted by her lost sons, as rumors of pretender Perkin Warbeck stir hope and fear. At Eltham, Maggie Plantagenet, Elizabeth’s niece, marries Tudor loyalist Richard Pole in 1491, her Plantagenet blood a delicate balance. Young Meg Tudor, a toddler, embodies fragile dynastic hope, while in Granada, five-year-old Catherine of Aragon, betrothed to Arthur, grows amid war and royal duty, her future as England’s queen dawning.
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When you don't know what you don't know.
In January 1486, Eliza, daughter of Edward IV, marries Henry VII, uniting York and Lancaster. Pregnant before the wedding, she bears the hope of a Tudor heir, her gold gown hiding doubts about Henry’s motives and her brothers’ fates. In September, she births Arthur in Winchester, a symbol of Tudor legitimacy. Margaret Beaufort orchestrates his grand christening, binding nobles to the dynasty. Elizabeth Woodville, in seclusion, takes pride in Arthur but fears Yorkist unrest. By 1487, a rebellion led by Lambert Simnel, posing as Edward, Earl of Warwick, threatens peace. Elizabeth sends warnings, while Maggie, a young Yorkist princess, grieves her brother Edward’s imprisonment and attends Eliza’s coronation, a bittersweet display of Tudor control.
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What one comes out on top?
In 1485-1487, England teeters on the edge of chaos. Eliza, a radiant Yorkist heiress, navigates a treacherous world as Richard III’s throne crumbles and Henry Tudor rises. Caught between duty and hope, her marriage to Henry promises peace but stirs unease. Margaret Beaufort, Henry’s cunning mother, orchestrates a new dynasty, while Elizabeth, the Dowager Queen, mourns her lost sons. Young Maggie, a Yorkist princess, clings to her brother’s fading legacy. As Bosworth’s bloodshed gives way to Prince Arthur’s birth and a pretender’s rebellion, these women balance love, loss, and power. Set to haunting harpsichord and viol, Thorns of Ambition explores the cost of a crown and the strength to endure its weight.
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And you throw your head back laughing like a little kid
I think it's strange that you think I'm funny 'cause he never did
I've been spending the last eight months
Thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end
But on a Wednesday in a cafe I watched it begin again