Dan Jones
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3,287 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Dan Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Henry, who by now has quite the court of exiles around him, gets wind that all this is afoot.
One of his closest advisers since childhood has been his uncle Jasper Tudor.
Jasper tells Henry, it's time to get the hell out of Dodge.
So in September 1484, that's exactly what they do.
Henry flees Brittany in disguise and goes over the border to France.
There's a new king there, Charles VIII, and he quite likes the idea of breaking up any cosy little deal between Richard III and the Bretons.
So from the autumn of 1484, France is Henry Tudor's new home.
And as that winter goes on
It's the home for plenty more renegades from Richard the Third's England too.
The Earl of Oxford escapes from prison in Calais and joins the party.
Elizabeth Woodville's son Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, is on the bus too.
An English academic called Richard Fox, based at the University of Paris, adds some intellectual heft.
This is just starting to have the whiff of a caught in waiting.
Henry has even been signing documents with his regal letter H, as though he's already wearing a crown.
Not surprisingly, Richard III absolutely hates this.
In December 1484, he issues a big whine from the Palace of Westminster in the form of a royal proclamation against all things Tudor.
He calls Henry Tudor and friends traitors, murderers, and extortioners, contrary to truth, honour, and nature, and damns Henry for having the nerve to fancy himself as King of England, when in fact he has no manner, interest, right, or colour, as every man knoweth.
Well, Ricky Baby, it takes one to know one.
What's more, harsh language is all well and good, but Richard still needs to actually do something practical to drag Henry's bid for power out of shape.
His attempt to winkle him out of Brittany has come to nothing.
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