1465 Queens' College founded

In 1461 Henry VI, whose Queen was responsible for the previous foundation of the College, was deposed at the end of the War of the Roses, and the Yorkist Edward IV became King. Edward's wife was was Elizabeth Woodville, a former lady-in-waiting to Margaret of Anjou.

At the request of Dockett, the new Queen further endowed the College, and it's first statutes were granted in 1475.

Thus, the involvement of a second Queen in the foundation of the College gave rise to the unusual position of the apostrophe in its name.

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