Dan Jones
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3,687 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Dan Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And Margaret can count herself lucky that it's not worse.
Around him, Richard promotes a small hard core of loyalists who've served him since his days as Duke of Gloucester.
many of whom have abetted all the dirty work that got him to the throne.
It looks for all the world like he and his little cabal are finally sitting pretty.
Yet in a strange sort of way.
If the failure of Buckingham's rebellion has strengthened Richard's hand, it's also strengthened Henry Tudor's.
Or at least it's clarified his position and his options.
It's clear that rehabilitation into the English nobility is now off the table forever.
There will be no Earldom of Richmond, no happy marriage into the House of York as a peer of the realm.
Instead
He's become the last hope of the Woodvilles and the old Edward IV Circle.
For them, everything now rides on Henry Tudor marrying Princess Elizabeth of York and offering an alternative to Richard as King.
This is Plan A, Plan B and Plan C, and they're going to do everything they can to make it happen.
On Christmas Day, 1483, the exiled Yorkists join Henry Tudor in Van Cathedral in Brittany for an extraordinary ceremony.
They swear homage to him as if he were already a king.
In return, Henry makes a sacred oath to marry Elizabeth of York as soon as he becomes King of England.
Exactly how this is all going to happen is a question left for another day.
But one thing is now certain.
Henry Tudor is going to come to England and topple the crooked regime of Richard III, or he's going to die trying.
The last days of the Plantagenet monarchy are upon us.
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