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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He's allowed Elizabeth Woodville out of sanctuary if she promises to let him decide the future of her daughters, but he pulls back from the old incest brink.
At the Hospital of St.
John, he stands in front of the irked Londoners and announces that he won't be marrying his brother's daughter after all.
But he's not happy about it.
On June the 23rd, he releases another truth social grade rant against his enemies, condemning Henry Tudor's bastard blood, and promising that if the Tudors invade, England can expect the disinheriting and destruction of all the noble and worshipful blood of this realm forever.
Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Okay, so he doesn't say the last bit.
Anyway, the fact is, Richard is shook, and he can't kneese fuck his way out of this one.
According to the chronicler Polydor Virgil, Richard is vexed, rested, and tormented in mind almost perpetually, wherefore he had a miserable life.
This sort of thing can get a man down.
Across the channel, however, Henry Tudor isn't feeling much more chill.
In fact, the same Virgil writes that he's pinched by the very stomach at the prospect that Richard might marry his meal ticket.
He's also worried that his supporters from Edward IV's old crew are going to get fed up with waiting and defect back to Richard.
The window for doing something doesn't feel like it'll be open forever.
And if Henry doesn't shoot his shot in the summer of 1485, that window could slam shut for good.
So Henry
Takes a deep breath and goes for it.
He borrows a bit of cash from the new French king Charles VIII, which is enough to hire just 4,000 men and pile them onto a few ships.
Then, in the first days of august fourteen eighty five, he set sail from Enfleur at the mouth of the river Seine in Normandy.
He and his uncle Jasper set a course for the other side of the channel.
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