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Despite the public wedding’s delay, Henry and Elizabeth almost certainly had exchanged private vows, as usually occured in royal marriages. References to her as his ‘wife’ can be found in a royal document in late 1485.

Elizabeth of York and her six daughters-in-law, by Retha Warnicke

28 MAY 1445: The marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou. On Friday May the Twenty Eighth, fifteen year old Margaret of Anjou, daughter of Duke Rene of Anjou married the twenty three year old Henry VI. The young royal was received with great pomp and ceremony as she made her way to London. Two days later she was crowned Queen of England.