Dan Jones

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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · Presenting...This is History: A Dynasty to Die For · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

It's taken three years, but by the summer of 1464, Edward and Warwick look like they've survived.

The Lancastrian threat has been reduced to Margaret of Anjou fuming with her son somewhere on the continent, Henry VI, who's AWOL but not considered a very active threat, and some minor characters who don't seem very threatening to anyone.

like the seven-year-old Henry Tudor.

But he and his mother, Margaret Beaufort, have been placed under genteel house arrest with a loyal Yorkist family in South Wales.

And honestly, they don't seem like a big problem.

So now Edward and Warwick can pour themselves a drink, take a deep breath and start to think about plans for the rest of Edward's reign.

When they do that, there seems to be one issue that matters above all others, securing the succession.

They need to take a grip on the long-term future of the family.

For that, Edward needs to get married, make a sensible foreign alliance, and get to work on producing some Yorkist princes and princesses.

The last bit, at least, feels like a job he's up to.

So Warwick adds a new job to his ever-lengthening resume as the king's right-hand man and puppet master.

He's now a matchmaker.

It's time to find the Rose of Rouen, a hot piece of medieval marriage material, to make into the first ever Yorkist queen.

The ambassadors from Castile have been hanging around in the chamber in Westminster Palace for some time.

They've been waiting and waiting...

and waiting.

Then England's charming young King Edward IV bursts into the room.

He seems a little out of breath, and when he has time to sit and everyone has a drink in their hands, he explains that he's just dashed 60 miles from Cambridge to meet them.

This being the King business, what a job.

You need to be everywhere all at once.

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