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| | King Edward V |
 | | Edward V, King of England, was the elder son of King Edward IV by his wife Elizabeth Woodville, and was born, during his father's temporary exile, in the sanctuary of Westminster Abbey on the 2nd of November 1470. |
 | | When Edward IV died in April 1483 a struggle for power took place between the young king's paternal uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who had been appointed as his guardian by Edward IV, and his maternal uncle, Richard Woodville, Earl Rivers. |
 | | Gloucester obtained possession of the king's person, and, having arrested Rivers and some of his supporters, assumed the crown himself after a very slight and feigned reluctance, on the ground that the marriage of Edward and Elizabeth Woodville was invalid, and consequently its issue was illegitimate. |
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