Short answers, pulled from the story.
Elizabeth of York was born on the 11th of February 1466 at the Palace of Westminster and died on the 11th of February 1503 from a postpartum infection. Her death occurred on her thirty-seventh birthday after giving birth to a daughter named Katherine who died a few days later.
Elizabeth of York was the eldest child of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Her two younger brothers disappeared from the Tower of London shortly after their uncle Richard III seized control as regent following their father's death on the 9th of April 1483.
Henry VII married Elizabeth of York on the 18th of January 1486 to unite the warring houses of Lancaster and York. The marriage was a political necessity to stabilize his rule and symbolized by the creation of the Tudor rose which combined the white rose of York with the red rose of Lancaster.
Elizabeth of York was a pious woman who gave away money and alms in very large quantities to help the poor and religious orders. She enjoyed dancing, gambling, and keeping greyhounds while also designing the new Greenwich Palace which commenced rebuilding in 1498.
Henry VII reportedly departed to a solitary place after Elizabeth's death and decreed that a requiem mass be sung on each anniversary of her death. He ordered the bells to be tolled and one hundred candles to be lit in her honor while continuing to employ her minstrels each New Year.
Elizabeth of York is buried under her effigies in the Westminster Abbey chapel alongside Henry VII. Her tomb was opened in the nineteenth century and the wood casing of her lead coffin was found to have been removed to create space for the interment of her great-great-grandson James VI and I.