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Originally Posted by Wearever
One thing I could never understand is why their sister Elizabeth would ever consider marring King Richard lll. He destroyed their family had them found illegitimate and is presumed to have murdered her brothers. I would think they would all want to be as far away from Richard as possible under the circumstances. Although she was a prisoner in the abby and may have stockholm syndrome .
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It doesn't seem particularly problematic to me; it seems quite practical. She wanted to be queen, and that meant marrying whoever was king, whether it was Richard or Henry. Being Richard's queen would have had the additional benefit of binding him to her family, and wouldn't he have had to reinstate her legitimacy too if he married her, just as Henry did?