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 they're not aiming for England.
Instead, they point their noses almost as far west as they can go, towards the land of their fathers, Wales.
It's a long journey, but on Sunday, August 7th, 1485, their modest little armada comes to shore in Milford Haven in West Wales.
Henry gets off the ship, wades ashore and falls to his knees.
It's fourteen years since he was last in the realm.
He kisses the wet sand and utters the words of Psalm 43.
Judge me, O Lord, and plead my cause.
At long last, his time.
Has come.
Henry Tudor's cheerful army marches through the mountains beneath a flag bearing a red dragon on a field of green and white.
They've been on the road for a week now and you can see them coming a mile off.
They're a hodgepodge of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Welsh, and even a few Scots, so there's a babble of different voices and a whole forest of different banners and flags.
They're carrying tools of war, weapons, armor, guns, and they've made no secret of their intent in coming to England.
Henry has been sending out messages to Welsh and English alike, asking them to join his cause, which is, as he puts it, the recovery of the crown of our realm of England to us of right appertaining.
He lets the Welsh know that he's their guy, and he'll stand up for their rights once he gets the English crown on his head.
He has to try and convince anyone else he possibly can to join his movement.
Otherwise, it's going to be over before it's even begun.
News of Henry's arrival reaches Richard III when he's in Nottingham, in the Midlands.
He claims to be thrilled.
It's a long wished for day, says one chronicler, who notes that Richard intends to triumph with ease over so contemptible a faction.
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