My personal opinion is that Henry VII, while he sometimes felt physical attraction and even affection for Elizabeth of York, for the most part felt utter contempt for her, and that this attitude was communicated, however unconsciously, by his attitude and behavior towards her, to their children and in particular to their second son, the future Henry VIII. I mean, let's face it, if we look at the marital relationships of Henry VIII, it's quite clear that he had some kind of major, deep-seated psychological complex where women were concerned - worse, that at the most basic level he simply did not respect women as human beings. After all, the two women he loved the most passionately in his entire life died on the scaffold, at his orders. Not normal behavior, even or especially for a Renaissance king, and it made him the laughingstock of his peers in Europe, as well as a dreaded Bluebeard figure. Remember the beautiful Duchess Christina of Milan, who refused to wed the ardent English king, lest she met the fate of his second wife (or for that matter, his first)?
