Elizabeth Woodville Quote

To her future husband Edward IV:

My liege, I know I am not good enough to be your queen, but I am far too good to become your mistress.


Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland Lives of the Queens of England (1840)


My liege, I know I am not good enough to be your queen, but I am far too good to become your mistress.

My liege, I know I am not good enough to be your queen, but I am far too good to become your mistress.

My liege, I know I am not good enough to be your queen, but I am far too good to become your mistress.

My liege, I know I am not good enough to be your queen, but I am far too good to become your mistress.