Dan Jones

I mean, this letter just like bursts with kind of youthful bravado, with brio, with just genuine love and enthusiasm for the business of warfare. So here... the Lancastrian family, as we call Henry IV and his kids, have lucked out effectively because this boy, to be Henry V, absolutely loves war. He really, really takes to it. And he's just got an innate taste for it.

I mean, this letter just like bursts with kind of youthful bravado, with brio, with just genuine love and enthusiasm for the business of warfare. So here... the Lancastrian family, as we call Henry IV and his kids, have lucked out effectively because this boy, to be Henry V, absolutely loves war. He really, really takes to it. And he's just got an innate taste for it.

And in the early 15th century, that's a good thing in your ruler. It's not necessarily the total skill set we always want today, but then this is good. It's good news.

And in the early 15th century, that's a good thing in your ruler. It's not necessarily the total skill set we always want today, but then this is good. It's good news.

And in the early 15th century, that's a good thing in your ruler. It's not necessarily the total skill set we always want today, but then this is good. It's good news.

yeah look he has this really really intense on the job training as prince of wales and uh it serves him in very good stead you know from age 13 through 18 19 20 he learns the ropes and you mentioned his injury we should say in 1403 when he's 16 he fights this battle he takes an arrow in the face uh the arrowhead gets lodged in the back of in the back of his skull he has to have

yeah look he has this really really intense on the job training as prince of wales and uh it serves him in very good stead you know from age 13 through 18 19 20 he learns the ropes and you mentioned his injury we should say in 1403 when he's 16 he fights this battle he takes an arrow in the face uh the arrowhead gets lodged in the back of in the back of his skull he has to have

yeah look he has this really really intense on the job training as prince of wales and uh it serves him in very good stead you know from age 13 through 18 19 20 he learns the ropes and you mentioned his injury we should say in 1403 when he's 16 he fights this battle he takes an arrow in the face uh the arrowhead gets lodged in the back of in the back of his skull he has to have

major surgery to remove it, and he's incredibly lucky to survive. But he's hardened, he's toughened in war. He then, you know, as you rightly say, his father becomes very ill. From 1406 onwards, Henry IV is suffering from a series of different interconnected maladies. And his health is very poor, but it takes a long time, it takes seven years effectively to die.

major surgery to remove it, and he's incredibly lucky to survive. But he's hardened, he's toughened in war. He then, you know, as you rightly say, his father becomes very ill. From 1406 onwards, Henry IV is suffering from a series of different interconnected maladies. And his health is very poor, but it takes a long time, it takes seven years effectively to die.

major surgery to remove it, and he's incredibly lucky to survive. But he's hardened, he's toughened in war. He then, you know, as you rightly say, his father becomes very ill. From 1406 onwards, Henry IV is suffering from a series of different interconnected maladies. And his health is very poor, but it takes a long time, it takes seven years effectively to die.

So, yeah, you get to this point, 1410, 1112, where Henry dies. to be Henry V, Henry, Prince of Wales, is really doing the job of king. He's held it down militarily. He's effectively president of his father's council. He's taking a lot of the major decisions with regard to domestic and foreign policy. But he's not the king. And he makes a serious error by basically asking his father to abdicate.

So, yeah, you get to this point, 1410, 1112, where Henry dies. to be Henry V, Henry, Prince of Wales, is really doing the job of king. He's held it down militarily. He's effectively president of his father's council. He's taking a lot of the major decisions with regard to domestic and foreign policy. But he's not the king. And he makes a serious error by basically asking his father to abdicate.

So, yeah, you get to this point, 1410, 1112, where Henry dies. to be Henry V, Henry, Prince of Wales, is really doing the job of king. He's held it down militarily. He's effectively president of his father's council. He's taking a lot of the major decisions with regard to domestic and foreign policy. But he's not the king. And he makes a serious error by basically asking his father to abdicate.

And he's got a lot of support in making this request, but it is a very stupid thing to do because the one lesson of his father's reign is it is so difficult to rule as king if you haven't inherited the throne fair and square. And there should be no ambiguity about that. And Henry V kind of misses this, tries to take the throne before his time.

And he's got a lot of support in making this request, but it is a very stupid thing to do because the one lesson of his father's reign is it is so difficult to rule as king if you haven't inherited the throne fair and square. And there should be no ambiguity about that. And Henry V kind of misses this, tries to take the throne before his time.

And he's got a lot of support in making this request, but it is a very stupid thing to do because the one lesson of his father's reign is it is so difficult to rule as king if you haven't inherited the throne fair and square. And there should be no ambiguity about that. And Henry V kind of misses this, tries to take the throne before his time.

And he's slapped down very, very heavily and very, very hard by his father. who leads him to believe that he's made such a grievous error that he's now, he may have forfeited his right to become king. And Henry the fourth starts like shifting his attention, his favor towards his second son, Thomas, uh, makes him Duke of Clarence.

And he's slapped down very, very heavily and very, very hard by his father. who leads him to believe that he's made such a grievous error that he's now, he may have forfeited his right to become king. And Henry the fourth starts like shifting his attention, his favor towards his second son, Thomas, uh, makes him Duke of Clarence.

And he's slapped down very, very heavily and very, very hard by his father. who leads him to believe that he's made such a grievous error that he's now, he may have forfeited his right to become king. And Henry the fourth starts like shifting his attention, his favor towards his second son, Thomas, uh, makes him Duke of Clarence.