What did Elizabeth of York Look Like? The Real Face of the White Princess Revealed

Use code ROYALTYNOW for 10% off of Manta Sleep products at https://tinyurl.com/ROYALTYNOW What did Elizabeth of York - history's "White Princess" - really look like? Five hundred years ago the Tudor dynasty was born when Henry VII married Elizabeth of York, the daughter of his greatest enemy. Their union joined the warring houses of Lancaster and York and gave England its first peace in over 30 years. But the face of England's first Tudor queen is a genuine mystery. In this video we go hunting for her true likeness - through painted propaganda, Renaissance bronze, and a battered wooden funeral effigy that may carry her real features. We'll look at why her surviving portraits can't be fully trusted, how the Florentine sculptor Pietro Torrigiano created her "startlingly realistic" tomb effigy, and how a wooden effigy that survived the Blitz in pieces became the basis for my facial reconstruction. The Reconstruction So, in an attempt to bridge five centuries of mystery, I built my own carefully considered approximation of her face - the closest we can honestly get to the woman who helped end the Wars of the Roses, and whose descendants still sit on the British throne today. Brought to life from her wooden funeral effigy and rotated against the painted portraits, the result isn't an exact match, but you can see how copyists working from the lost original could have arrived at the familiar image. What fascinated me most was how strongly Elizabeth resembles her own descendants - particularly Elizabeth I and a young Henry VIII - as well as her mother, Elizabeth Woodville. It's an imperfect window, but a window all the same, onto the face of England's first Tudor queen. 0:00 Intro & Brief History 2:43 Elizabeth’s Portraits 4:11 The Sculptures & Effigies 9:06 What did her contemporaries say? 10:22 Re-creations Revealed #ElizabethOfYork #Tudors #HenryVII #WarsOfTheRoses #TudorHistory #FacialReconstruction #EnglishHistory #WhitePrincess #Royalty #History Find us here: Instagram: @Royalty_Now_ X: @Royalty_Now Tik Tok: @RoyaltyNow RoyaltyNowStudios.com This video creation and final image are ©Royalty Now.