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Royal Family:

Henry Tudor – King Henry VII

Lady Margaret Beaufort – ‘My Lady the King’s Mother’

Elizabeth of York – Queen Elizabeth

Princess Cecily of York – the queen’s sister & 1st Chief Lady-in-Waiting

Princess Anne of York – the queen’s sister & 2nd Chief Lady-in-Waiting

Dowager Queen Elizabeth (Woodville) – the queen’s mother

Arthur, Prince of Wales – born 20th September 1486, the Tudor heir

Margaret Plantagenet/Pole – the queen’s disinherited York cousin

Edward, Earl of Warwick – Margaret Plantagenet’s younger brother

John, Earl of Lincoln – son & heir of the queen’s paternal aunt Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk

Margaret, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy – the queen’s other paternal aunt & a focus of Yorkist conspiracy

Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford – King Henry’s paternal uncle

John, Viscount Welles – the king’s maternal half-uncle

Princess Margaret Tudor – born 28th November 1489, eldest daughter of the king

Prince Henry, Duke of York (Harry) – born 28th June 1491, the king’s 2nd son

Princess Elizabeth Tudor – born 2nd July 1492, 2nd daughter of the king

Princess Mary Tudor – born 18th March 1496, 3rd daughter of the king

Prince Edmund, Duke of Somerset – born 21st February 1499, 3rd son of the king

Lady Meg Poyntz – queen’s illegitimate cousin by Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers (see English citizens & Deceased characters)

Royal Households:

King Henry:

PC=Privy Councillor

KG=Knight of the Garter

Sir Richard Guildford – Master of Ordnance & Armaments & PC Later KG

Nicholas Gainsford – Usher of the King’s Chamber

Lord Thomas Stanley – Earl of Derby, High Constable of England & PC Husband of the king’s mother

Sir William Stanley – Earl of Derby’s brother, 2nd Lord Chamberlain, PC & KG

John Morton – Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor & later Cardinal

John de Vere, Earl of Oxford – 1st Lord Chamberlain, PC, KG & Arthur’s Godfather

Sir Henry Wyatt – Master of the King’s Jewels & Comptroller of the Mint

Giles, Lord Daubeney – succeeded Sir William Stanley as Lord Chamberlain, PC & KG

Queen Elizabeth:

Joan Vaux – former ward of Lady Margaret, later Lady Guildford

Katherine Pennyson/Lady Vaux – Joan’s mother, known as Mother Vaux

Lady Mary Rivers – widow of the queen’s uncle Anthony, Earl Rivers & former ward of Lady Margaret Beaufort

Eleanor Verney – Lady-in-Waiting, married to Sir Ralph Verney, sister of Richard Pole

Elizabeth Jerningham – Keeper of the Queen’s Robes

Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond – Queen’s Lord Chamberlain

Lady Elizabeth Stafford – 3rd Chief Lady-in-Waiting & daughter of the Duke of Buckingham

Guildford Family:

Sir Richard Guildford of Halden, Kent – Master of Ordnance & Armaments

Sir John Guildford – Richard’s father & Comptroller of Royal Household

Richard’s children in age order:

by Anne Pympe:

Edward (Ned)

Maria

George

Philippa (Pippa)

Friedswide (Winnie) – Friedswide a popular saint in this period, also known as Winifred

Elizabeth (Lizzie)

by Joan:

Henry (Hal)

Elizabeth (Bess) Mortimer – Richard’s ward

English citizens:

Rosie – a London silkwoman

Nicholas Vaux – Joan’s brother, a landed esquire, later knighted

Beth Fitzhugh/Vaux – his Yorkist bride

Lambert Simnel – name given to the pretend Edward of Warwick

Richard Pole – Esquire (later Knight) of the King’s Body, brother of Lady Eleanor Verney & husband of Margaret Plantagenet

Martin Steward – a senior Guildford servant

Hugh – a scullion training as a server

Luce – a Guildford maidservant

Jake – the Guildford cook

Wynkyn de Worde – printer at Caxton’s Westminster press

Mistress Wood – governess to the Guildford children

Sir John Digby – Lieutenant Constable of the Tower of London

Lettie Stock – a London midwife

Mistress Strood – a Kent farmer’s wife & breast nurse to baby Hal

Hetty Smith – a maidservant from the Kent village of Rolvenden

Sir Robert Poyntz – a landed knight, husband of Meg Woodville

Anthony Poyntz – their eldest son

Jane Howell – governess to Prince Henry & former nurse to King Henry

Mistress Brook – 2nd governess to the Guildford children

Deceased characters:

Queen Marguerite – Marguerite of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI the last Lancastrian King of England

Edward (Édouard), Prince of Wales – their son

Sir William Vaux – Joan’s father

Edward IV – Yorkist king who deposed Henry VI

Prince Edward of York & Prince Richard of York – The Princes in the Tower, deaths unknown

Richard of Gloucester – Richard III (the usurper), Edward IV’s brother

Anne Pympe – Sir Richard Guildford’s 1st wife

Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers – executed on Richard III’s orders (father of Meg Poyntz)