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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Now, there are a thousand reasons not to marry your dead brother's daughter, and it's likely that some of them are written in capital letters in the Old Testament.
But in 1485, there's one very good reason to put aside any little worries about being a sicko.
to stop Henry Tudor from beating him to it.
In Richard's mind.
Anything that blocks Henry Tudor from advancing his claim to the crown is a perfectly legitimate little manoeuvre.
And let's be real, it's not like Richard has had any qualms about abusing other members of his dead brother's family.
Just ask Elizabeth Woodville, who's living with the fact that Richard has killed her brother and one of her sons, has probably killed two more of them, and has run a whole load of her siblings out.
out of the realm, fearing for their lives.
Uncle of the Year.
He's not.
Nor is he any longer flavour of the month.
In London at any rate.
It was bad enough at the start of the year when the whispers first began about this incestuous marriage, which one chronicler writes is guaranteed to bring down the abhorrence of the Almighty.
Things have got even worse since the spring, because on March the sixteenth, Queen Anne died.
Not surprisingly, people have been claiming she was poisoned and public anger has been mounting.
Richard's counsel are forced to take the unusual step of telling him to get a goddamn grip.
They tell him that if he goes ahead with this niece marrying nonsense, then he won't just have grumbling to contend with.
They predict that all the people of the North, in whom he places the greatest reliance, will rise up in rebellion against him.
That, at last, is enough to focus Richard's mind.
He's made the first moves towards marrying Elizabeth of York.
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