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annaofcleves:

♚ From the onset of Anne’s fatal illness, at the end of 1484 to her death on Wednesday 16 March 1485, Richard never left the Palace of Westminster, where she lay dying, except for a total of two days when he was at Windsor. There could be no stronger indication than this, that, yes, the King did love his wife and was loyal to her to the end. He could have gone elsewhere, made excuses, got away from it all, but he didn’t. He stayed with her until she died – finally leaving Westminster on Thursday 12 April – never to return. Five months later, he too was dead. Clearly he gave to Anne the loyalty that he was to find so disastrously lacking in others to himself. But then again, this was a man whose motto was Loyaltie me Lie.