When Christ and his Saints Slept and a Yorkist princess, a Tudor queen

I have some happy news about When Christ and His Saints Slept. We’ve been told that it will be available for sale as an audio book on February 12th, although it does not seem to be available yet for pre-ordering. Now I have to play catch-up again with my Today in History posts.
January 19, 1486 was the wedding day of Elizabeth of York and Henry Tudor. She seems to have been both kind-hearted and pragmatic, for she managed to make the best of a forced marriage to the usurper, and the utterly unsentimental Henry actually mourned her death. But this could not have been a happy wedding day for her, a young and beautiful woman shoved into bed with the avowed enemy of her House, a man whose official portrait looks like a wanted poster and who displayed all the warmth and charm of a Bill Belichick press conference. I hope she found happiness in her children, though she had to endure the tragic loss of her eldest son, Arthur. Her second son, Henry, was said to have adored her, and I wonder if she might have been a settling influence upon him if she’d not died so young.