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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Well, as long as you're not on his bad side.
Now.
On with the show.
After this short break.
Margaret Beaufort watches the clerk painstakingly writing out letters on the old sheet of parchment.
Watching along is her husband, Thomas Stanley, the most powerful lord in North West England.
The clerical office they've come to visit is buzzing with activity.
Royal scribes are working on all sorts of documents property transfers, charters, confirmations of land titles you name it, they're at it.
But as far as Margaret is concerned, nothing that's being written out here today is remotely as important as the document her clerk is working on.
It's the draft of a royal pardon.
person it excuses from all past misdemeanours is her son.
The exile, Henry Tudor.
Margaret hasn't seen her son for about a decade.
He's 24 now, a fully grown man, but she's never stopped thinking of him, or quietly fighting his corner.
And today, his case is taking a huge step forward.
Because the pardon that's being written is under the authority.
of the plantagenate King of England.
And it's with his royal approval that Henry is going to be protected from all legal action or political persecution.
Once this has been done.
The next steps will be to bring him home, then start integrating him into the ranks of the English nobility.
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