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Elizabeth Woodville (also spelt Wydville, Wydeville, or Widvile; [a] c. 1437 [1] – 8 June 1492), later known as Dame Elizabeth Grey, was Queen of England from 1 May 1464 until 3 October 1470 and from 11 April 1471 until 9 April 1483 as the wife of King Edward IV.
Lady Jane Grey (1536/7 – 12 February 1554), also known as Lady Jane Dudley after her marriage [3] and nicknamed as the "Nine Days' Queen", [6] was an English noblewoman who was proclaimed Queen of England and Ireland on 10 July 1553 and reigned until she was deposed by her cousin, Mary I, on 19 July 1553.
Elizabeth's paternal grandmother was Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of King Edward IV of England. Elizabeth had 13 siblings, including her eldest brother Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset , who succeeded their father when he died in September 1501, when she was about four years old.
The piece featuring Meghan is entitled Returning White Queen and portrays her as Elizabeth Woodville, later known as Dame Elizabeth Grey, who was Queen of England by marriage to King Edward in 1464.
Eleanor Grey (or "Elizabeth" [23]) Grey (died by December 1503) who was the first wife of Sir John Arundell (1474–1545) of Lanherne, Cornwall, Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall and "the most important man in the county". [24] Mary Grey (1493 – 22 February 1538), [25] [26] who married Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford. [6]
Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford (née Lady Katherine Grey; 25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568) [1] [2] was a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey.. A granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, she emerged as a prospective successor to her cousin, Elizabeth I of England, before incurring Queen Elizabeth's wrath by secretly marrying Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford.
Elizabeth Grey, 6th Baroness Lisle (c. 1482–c. 1525), English noble woman who flourished during the reigns of Henry VII and VIII Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kildare (c. 1497 – after 1548), English noblewoman, and the second wife of Irish peer Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
Elizabeth, though protesting her innocence in the Wyatt affair, was imprisoned in the Tower of London for two months, then put under house arrest at Woodstock Palace. [98] Mary was—excluding the brief, disputed reigns of the Empress Matilda and Lady Jane Grey—England's first queen regnant.