Dan Jones
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first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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And the good or bad news
is that we're not done yet.
Not by a long stretch.
But to make sense of that, and indeed what goes down at Bosworth in august fourteen eighty five, we need to step back to where we left off our story last episode in fourteen eighty four.
Buckingham's rebellion has backfired, Henry Tudor has come, seen, and very much not conquered, and Richard looks like he's locked in to wear his stolen crown for as long as he likes, before handing it on in turn, to his own heir, the Prince of Wales, Edward of Middlem.
So what happens?
Well the first thing is that tragedy strikes and it involves Prince Edward.
In early 1484, the lad is about 10 years old.
He's been doing his growing up in castles around the north of England, where he enjoys the usual pleasures of an aristocratic childhood.
He's taken on trips around the countryside in a chariot.
Jesters entertain him in his household.
Now and again, he's brought out for a public ceremony where his dad reminds everyone that his claim to the throne is totally legit.
That's probably fun too, so long as little Edward never thinks to ask, what happened to his cousins?
Still, if there's one thing that the case of the Princes in the Tower made abundantly clear, it's that childhood in the Middle Ages can be precarious, and so it proves for little Edward Prince of Wales.
April 9, 1484 marks exactly a year to the day since the old king, Edward IV, died, an event that set in chain the crazy sequence of other events that ended up with Richard III on the throne.
and as terrible luck, but I'm afraid to say it, Karma would have it, on that day Edward of Middleham dies.
He suffered a short illness and just like that, he's gone.
It devastates King Richard and Queen Anne.
According to a chronicler, it throws them into a state almost bordering on madness by reason of their sudden grief.
And it would be inhuman not to sympathise with them.
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