Elizabeth Woodville (Queen Elizabeth) is the wife of King Edward IV and the mother of Elizabeth of York and the two princes. She is also the mother of Dorset and Grey (children from her first marriage) as well as the sister of Rivers. Even when Edward IV was alive, Richard made it clear that he didn’t like Elizabeth or her family as the thought of them as of low status, and didn’t like how Elizabeth used her power to promote her relatives, along with changing her social status just by marrying his brother, the king. Richard is not the only one amongst the traditional nobility who resent these parvenu and he uses this fact to gain the support of Hastings and Buckingham. Richard also pins the blame of Clarence’s imprisonment on her.
