Dan Jones

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

also is appointed as Warden of the North, meaning he has oversight of the turbulent Scottish border.

He's put in charge of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of York.

Those are the two huge private estates owned by the Crown.

Then,

there's a massive tranche of land confiscated from nobles who sided with Henry VI, that Towton, especially the Percy family, who were the long-term opponents of Warwick's Neville family in northern England.

The financial value of all this makes Warwick the richest non-royal noble of all time.

The political heft puts him virtually on a par with the king.

Foreign diplomats describe him as being the governor of all England.

One French observer writes to the King of France that the English have but two rulers, Monsieur le Warrique and another one who's never forgotten.

Obviously that's a joke.

The French can be amusing, sometimes.

But like all good one-liners, it's got a sharp sting of truth to it.

Warwick is more than a decade older than Edward and he's been around the block.

He reckons, with some justification, that if it wasn't for him, there would be no House of York.

So if the world wants to see him as a second king, that suits Warwick down to the ground.

But if Warwick is going to enjoy all the riches and the influence that being a kingmaker brings, then it's going to fall on him to make sure Edward stays secure in his crown.

And it's not long before he has to do exactly that.

Because within two years of Edward's coronation, there's a serious assault on the kingdom.

Royal spies find out that a plot is being hatched between renegade Lancastrians in England and foreign enemies outside.

Pulling the strings is a person who's nursed more hatred towards the House of York than anyone else.

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