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Richard, Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Anne by Edwin Austin Abbey. Anne Neville appears in three scenes in William Shakespeare's Richard III. In Act I, Scene 2, Richard III persuades her to marry him. In Act IV, Scene 1, just before Richard III's coronation, Anne Neville meets Edward IV's widow and laments her own position.
Anne Neville (c. 1408 – 20 September 1480) was a daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and his second wife Lady Joan Beaufort. Her first husband was Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham , and she was an important English noblewoman, landholder and book owner during the fifteenth century.
It is the story of Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England. [1] The 2013 BBC One television series The White Queen is a 10-part adaptation of Gregory's novels The White Queen (2009), The Red Queen (2010) and The Kingmaker's Daughter , and features Faye Marsay as Anne Neville.
Duke of Gloucester: Dukedom of Gloucester (1st creation) extinct, 1397: King Henry IV 1367–1413: John Beaufort 1373–1410 1st Earl of Somerset: Joan Beaufort c. 1379 –1440: Duke of Gloucester (2nd creation), 1414: Humphrey of Lancaster 1390–1447 Duke of Gloucester: John Beaufort 1404–1444 Duke of Somerset: Cecily Neville 1415–1495
When Edward of Westminster was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471, Anne Neville was married to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the brother of Yorkist King Edward IV of England who later became King Richard III of England. [1] They married after a dispensation to marry was issued from Rome on 22 April 1472. [1]
Other working royals include Anne, known for her no-nonsense hard-working approach, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra, but the latter two have ...
Anne was the granddaughter of King Edward III by his son Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester and Eleanor de Bohun. With Anne he had three children: Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who married Anne Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Lady Joan Beaufort.
At 78, The Duke of Gloucester is well into his 4th decade as a full-time working royal. But like his first cousin, the late Queen Elizabeth, he wasn't born as high in the line of succession as he ...