#annenevilleedit

[kathrynhoward]

ANNE NEVILLE and RICHARD III THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)

[randomficqueen]

My forgotten Queen

Anne Neville is probably one of my most forgotten favorite queens through the ages. Sure, she didn't do great things nor was she revolutionary, but her history has always been short and I even think distorted.

I loved Faye Marsay's performance in White Queen and I prefer her more than Phoebe Fox in Hollow Crown, but it must be because of the appearance and personality she delivers in the story.

[faye-marsay]

Anne Neville | The White Queen

[stardust-pond]

If you must mourn, don’t do it alone If you must leave, leave as though fire burns under your feet   | insp.

[kathrynhoward]

FAYE MARSAY as ANNE NEVILLE THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)

[kathrynhoward]

THE WHITE QUEEN (2013)

[faye-marsay]

[stardust-pond]

June 11, 1456 | Birth of Anne Neville, Queen Consort of England

June 11, 1456 - Warwick Castle, England - Anne Neville was born to Countess of Warwick Anne de Beauchamp and Earl of Warwick Richard Neville. She would be their second daughter and last child. Anne went from being born a daughter of the most powerful Lord in England to a key player during the period of English history that became known as The Wars of the Roses. Born a Yorkish, her loyalties changed hands when her father broke from the Yorkish King Edward IV and married her to King Henry VI’s son and heir, Prince of Wales Edward of Lancaster. Her life as Princess of Wales was short lived with the Princes’ and Henry VI’s deaths which brought her back into Yorkish standing. Legend has it that she became a kitchen-maid for a short stint while her brother-in-law George Duke of Clarence hid her so that she would not be able to marry his brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester with whom she had been betrothed to as a child. Despite some struggles, Anne and Richard were married and she became his Duchess before becoming his Queen and Queen Consort of England. Anne had only one child, Edward of Middleham who died almost a year prior to her. Anne died at the age of 28, from a wasting disease during a total eclipse of the sun. King Richard III, Anne’s husband died five months later at the Battle of Bosworth Field marking an end to The Wars of the Roses. Not much information has survived concerning Anne and in many ways she is a Queen hidden in the shadows of history…