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While Elizabeth awaited the birth of their first child, Henry tended to routine business of the kingdom. On March 4, 1486, he restored to queen dowager Elizabeth “the lordship and manors” of six properties in the county of Essex. The next day he added her dower property from the duchy of Lancaster.[7]
( здесь опущен абзац, описывающий поездки и действия Генриха, перед тем, как он присоединился в Винчестере к жене).
 Elizabeth—as she would throughout her life—surrounded herself with family. Her mother, queen dowager Elizabeth, and the king’s mother, Margaret Beaufort, attended her, along with the queen’s sisters. As Elizabeth prepared to give birth, her mother began to prepare for a new phase in her own life. On July 10, 1486, queen dowager Elizabeth obtained a lease from the Abbot of Westminster for “a mansion within the said Abbey called Cheyne gate . . . with all the houses, chambers, aislement and other.”[10] The queen dowager was preparing to enter a life of seclusion and religious contemplation.
 During the two years of 1483 and 1484, queen dowager Elizabeth had suffered extraordinary traumas: the unexpected death of her husband Edward IV, the disappearance of her sons Edward V and Prince Richard, the executions of her son Sir Richard Grey and her brother Lord Anthony Wydeville, Parliament’s negation of her marriage to Edward IV, the declaration that her children were “bastards,” and 11 months in Sanctuary. Elizabeth Wydeville was planning a retreat from the murderous world of court politics. In February 1487, she entered Bermondsey Abbey, where she lived the rest of her life in contemplative seclusion—except for a visit to her daughter Elizabeth during her second confinement. Now, however, the queen dowager stayed with her daughter to await the birth of her first grandchild.