She was born the daughter of a knight, in a quiet corner of the English countryside, while the kingdom around her was sliding toward civil war. By the strangest turn of fortune, she would become the first Englishwoman since the Norman Conquest to be raised from among the king's own subjects to share his throne.

This video follows the full life of Elizabeth Woodville, from her childhood at Grafton manor in Northamptonshire, through her secret marriage to King Edward IV, her coronation at Westminster Abbey, and the years of power that followed. It also moves through the darker hours, the death of her husband, the disappearance of her two young sons into the Tower of London, and her quiet years in sanctuary while everything she had built fell away around her.

A calm and unhurried account of one of the most remarkable lives in medieval English history, told against the turbulent backdrop of the Wars of the Roses.