S10 E5 | King Henry’s Second Coming
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The beer house in Southwark is rocking. It's mid-September 1470. The harvest is in and there's plenty of ale to go around. Drinkers of all ages and various nationalities rub shoulders and make merry. Toasts are proposed and beer foam sticks deliciously to mustachioed upper lips. When the drink is flowing, Southwark is the place to be. The London suburb on the south bank of the River Thames is known across Plantagenet England as the place to go to get your mug filled and your something else pulled. Here in Southwark. Every day is your birthday. Today though is a bit different. Because as pints are passed around and songs sung There's a commotion in the street outside. And suddenly A mob of out-of-towners burst in.
This slots don't look like they're here to play beer pond. The newcomers are a bunch of troublemakers from Kent, intent on causing chaos. They turn over tables and they rough up patrons. They're up in everyone's faces, getting off on the terror these half-cut day drinkers are feeling. It only takes a few moments for the place to empty out. Thugs bringing the action to the streets, while everyone else just tries to get out of there unharmed. Not for the first time in recent years, public order in the English capital has broken down, and the reason comes right from the top. Over the past few years, the Yorkist king Edward IV has been struggling to contain the troublemaking of his one-time noble henchman, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
Since spring this year, Warwick has been overseas, gathering supporters for an invasion. He's in cahoots with Edward's brother, George Duke of Clarence, and now the King of France, Louis XI, too. Two days ago, Warwick landed back in Devon in the southwest. Edward, meanwhile, is up north, trying to raise an army to defend his kingdom. There's a serious power vacuum and no one has a clue what's going to happen next. The Kent mob are taking advantage of no one being in charge to have a bit of fun, drink some free beer, and stick one over on a bunch of foreigners, that being the good old English way. And if Warwick has his way, leadership vacuums are here to stay. Because the man he's come to England to put on the throne isn't himself, or even George Duke of Clarence.
It's the most useless king a Plantagenet England has ever produced. Forty eight year old Henry VI. Henry's leadership style is like a scarecrow being remote drone piloted by a care bear. He's already been kicked off the throne once for being a basket case, but now Warwick, the self-appointed kingmaker, is angling to hook him out of the Tower of London. If it works. It'll be the most astonishing coup in Plantagenet history. Whether there'll be any England left for the Scarecrow to rule, well
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