After the death and overthrow of Richard III, the act was repealed, which had the effect of reinstating the legitimacy of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville's children.

[1] Edward's reign was also criticised, he was said to have led by "sensuality and concupiscence" and delighted in "adulation and flattery" and to have been easily influenced by "persons insolent, vicious and of inordinate avarice", a reference to the Woodville family.

In contrast, Richard was said to have been a man distinguished by "great wit, prudence, justice, princely courage, and memorable and laudable acts in diverse battles.

The repealing act was passed in the first Parliament of Henry VII, stating that the original Titulus Regius was void, adnulled, repelled, irrite [invalidated], and of noe force ne effecte[2] and that the original be destroyed, and that any copies should be either destroyed or returned to Parliament on pain of fine and imprisonment.

Thomas More assumed that the act referred to Edward's longtime mistress, Elizabeth Lucy, a view that was repeated until Buck discovered the original document.