Dan Jones
speaker
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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He's in no position to invade France.
Richard needs to come up with some plan of attack.
Ideally, he needs to attack Henry from an angle he won't have seen coming, and he needs to do it quickly.
Fortunately, if there's one thing Richard III is good at, it's coming up with wild left field political plays that only a sicko or a genius could possibly have come up with, let alone executed.
And at Christmas 1484, shortly after his big whinge is issued at Westminster, Richard comes up with a master stroke.
Henry Tudor's appeal to the Yorkists rests on his sacred oath to marry Richard's niece, Elizabeth of York, who
But he can't do that if Elizabeth should happen to be married to someone else first.
With these basic political facts in mind, Richard puts two and two together and comes up
With a nice round number of
Incest.
An irate mob has gathered at the Hospital of St.
John in London.
People are pushing and shoving, trying to get near the front of the hall, where they'll be able to get their point across to the speaker whenever he arrives.
There's a mood in the air that can only be described as disgusted.
And rightly so.
For months, rumors have been flying around the city, indeed around the whole country, concerning King Richard's latest political plans.
And it's fair to say that the old crown-robbing child vanisher has finally found a rage bait that lands with everyone.
Since Christmas, the word on the street has been that Richard has been plotting to get rid of his wife, Queen Anne, and replace her with someone more suited to his latest ambitions.
That someone
is Elizabeth of York, the nineteen year old daughter of his dead brother, Edward the Fourth.
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