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a Queen decision

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"This one then! Or maybe this one?... Hmm, the best match for my sister would be this one but --I don’t know, my favourite is this one --and this one?! *sigh* What do you think Henry?"
" ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ “


Elizabeth combined a strong sense of family loyalty –including a love for her siblings which was ‘ferme incredibilis’, truly extraordinary –with a strong awareness of the new political dispensation that she represented. In early 1495 (...) she had brokered and funded high-profile marriages for her younger sisters, Anne and Katherine, in the process binding two noble families further into the regime: Anne’s husband was the oldest son of Thomas Howard, earl of Surrey; Katherine, meanwhile, married Lord William Courtenay, son of the earl of Devon. As her extended family became entangled in the various crises of the reign, Elizabeth’s quietly emollient role continued to dovetail with Henry’s policies.
Elizabeth was a discreet, persuasive lobbyist on her own account. London’s key politicians and merchants cultivated her assiduously; so too did foreign diplomats. Beneath the emollience was a steeliness, glimpsed in the brisk letters she wrote intervening in legal affairs, and in petitioning her husband for favours on behalf of her servants.


-- The Winter King, by Thomas Penn


King Henry VII & Queen Elizabeth of York, c.1495
(it's been a while since my last colorized drawing... oh my, it's awful. sorry :-P)


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Wow, looking through your art, I have to say I absolutely adore your romantic pictures. They show so much emotion. Thank you an please keep up the work! :D