What is so important about Elizabeth of York?

Question

What claim does she have that no one else does?

Answer 1

She could claim to be at one time, the late Princess Diana's mother-in-law.

Answer 2

Well she was a Queen... thats pretty important... she had a wonderful marriage considering the that she as to become a pawn in the great game of diplomacy of the period.

But the claims that she had that no else had was she was a Queen--lol!!!! I don't have that claim... do you?

Answer 3

The picture of a queen in a deck of cards is based on her!

*Edit* She was also the only Queen to be wife, daughter, sister, niece and mother to English Kings.

Answer 4

Elizabeth of York (February 11, 1466 – February 11, 1503) was the eldest daughter of Edward IV, Queen Consort of King Henry VII of England, whom she married in 1486, the mother of King Henry VIII, and the sister of King Edward V.

She was born as Princess of England and her mother, Elizabeth Woodville, promised her hand in marriage to Henry Tudor if he could win back the English throne from her uncle, Richard III. She in fact, heiress to the English throne after her father, Edward V of England and, after the mysterious death of her two younger brothers, the famous "The Two Princes In the Tower."

Her marriage to Henry Tudor (later King Henry VII of England) signified the end of the "War of Roses" and uniting the House of York and the House of Lancaster. She is the mother of Henry VIII (famous King who had six wives) and paternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth I (the most famous English Queen throughout the entire Great Britain's history).