“Henry arrived at Calais on October 6 [1492], then joined his allies in besieging Boulogne. Elizabeth, left behind at Eltham in charge of her younger children, felt her husband’s absence keenly, and wrote him many letters —with “tender, frequent, and loving lines”— begging him so persuasively to return that they were among the “potent reasons” why he raised the siege, concluded a peace treaty with Charles VIII on November 3 at Étaples, and returned to England soon after November 17. This reveals how close the royal couple had become in nearly seven years of marriage —so close that they hated being apart.”
Alison Weir, Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
If King Astor ever has to go to war.
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