Edward IV secretly marries Elizabeth Woodville
1464 · Event
The young king secretly weds a Lancastrian knight's widow, wrecking Warwick the Kingmaker's French marriage plans and raising her large family to power — the breach that would turn Warwick against him.
On these timelines: Wars of the Roses, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined), Women in history
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