Dan Jones

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

She would say she's just trying to get back what's hers by right.

Her plan is, or rather was, to launch a three-pronged invasion, with armies hitting the Yorkist regime from Wales, southern England and the north, while insurgents within the realm rose up to create civil disturbance, overwhelming the new king's capacity to resist.

Only, well, self-evidently, the whole thing has unravelled.

Loose lips have sunk ships, and key figures in England, like Oxford, have been betrayed.

Six days ago, Oxford's eldest son was divorced from his head on this very spot outside the Tower of London.

Now it's the older man's turn.

If anyone thinks there might be mercy, given Oxford's obvious ill health, they're dead wrong.

The old geezer is brought forward, offered any last words, then made to kneel down and... It's sayonara, sunshine.

The Wars of the Roses have claimed their latest noble head.

As the axe comes down on Oxford, the heat goes out of the wider plot he was party to.

Smelling failure, the foreign backers mostly lose interest.

Mostly, but not totally.

Queen Margaret, trying to salvage something from the mess, keeps on lobbying foreign rulers to help her out.

In the autumn of 1462, she manages to scrape together enough donations and troops to take a few dozen ships and 800 mercenaries to northern England, where her men invade the coast of Northumbria and take control of a few castles.

This isn't enough to threaten to collapse Edward's rule completely, but it is still a bloody nuisance.

So now is the moment that Edward's heavily rewarded right-hand man, the Earl of Warwick, has to step up and show his worth.

Across the winter of 1462 to 63, he works his way around the castles Margaret's men are holding and kicks the rebels out of them.

By March 1463, he seems to have got the job done.

And although he can't lay his hands on Queen Margaret herself, or the feeble old Henry VI, he manages to split them up.

When it becomes clear that their plot has fizzled out, Margaret hightails it to France, taking with her her nine-year-old son.

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