King Henry VI of England married to Margaret of Anjou at Titchfield Abbey, 23 April 1445. The mad king was 24 and the queen 15. The ceremony is officiated by a bishop, and attended by maids in hennin, courtiers, falconer, jester, page with dagger. Marriage of Henry VI with Margaret of Anjou. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Gilbert Abbott A’Beckett’s Comic History of England, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London, 1880.

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