S10 E7 | The Tribute Act
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What is the premise of Edward IV’s “tribute act” and why does Dan compare him to a bad Henry V impersonator?
Hello friends, just a quick one from me about what's in this week's bonus episode. And this time, it's all about two figures who are on different ends of the thespian spectrum. First, producer Al and I discuss Edward IV's bad Henry the Fifth cosplay, and then we get into Margaret Beaufort's Oscar-worthy performance of piety and patience in the face of absolute idiocy. Plus, yet another update from the on-again, off-again romance between England and Burgundy. You can watch all of that ad free over at our Royal Court. Hit patreon dot com forward slash this is history to subscribe. But for now, it's time for the Plantagenet's best tribute act.
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Ah yes, hello, I'm Simon Mayod. Ah yes, hello, I'm Mark Kermod. What is coming up on the take this week, Mark? We have reviews of Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man, Love Me Tender, a French drama, the summer book starring Glenn Close, and there's also a reissue of The Hunt for the Wilder People with our special guest.
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The yard outside Nosley Hall is busy with men preparing to go to war. Horses are being groomed and their tack checked over. Bows and arrows are packed, along with foodstuffs that won't perish on the long journey overseas. Banners are stitched and tents rolled up. Pieces of steel armor are buffed until they're gleaming. It won't be long until this roadshow rumbles out of Noseley and makes the long trip south to London. From there, the Lord of the Manor, Thomas Lord Stanley, will take his men on to Canterbury, where a massive army is mustering under the Plantagenet King, Edward IV. The drums of war are beating. And for once, it's not civil war. Edward IV is planning a huge invasion of France, bigger than anything seen since the legendary campaigns of Henry V more than half a century ago.
Stanley is going to serve as one of his top advisors. It makes a big change for the English to be banding together to fight someone else. The whole country is crackling with excitement. Stanley's wife, 31-year-old Margaret Beaufort, watches the war preparations in their courtyard with interest. It's fourteen seventy five, four years on from the last round of bloodletting in the Wars of the Roses. Since then, plenty has changed for her. For a start, Margaret has been widowed for the third time and married for the fourth. Her most recent husband, Henry Stafford, died in 1471 after wounds he sustained fighting for King Edward at the Battle of Barnet. So now she's married to forty-year-old Stanley, the most powerful lord in North West England, as well as steward of the royal household.
This close connection with the Yorkist King is keeping Margaret immune from suspicion that she's a closet supporter of the Lancastrian faction, Edward recently destroyed. And that's just as well. It's true that the Lancastrians were crushed in fourteen seventy one. Henry VI murdered, Warwick the Kingmaker slain in battle, Margaret of Anjou arrested, and her son killed. But that makes Margaret a little more vulnerable. Because it may be that her only son, Henry Tudor, is now the last heir to the Lancastrian cause. Aged eighteen, Henry's living in exile across the Channel, on the assumption that England and Wales aren't safe for him anymore. Could it be that one of Edward's side quests in his military expedition to France might be to get Henry back in his clutches?
Margaret has to assume it might be. So as she watches her husband Stanley with the final touches to his war preparations, she knows her entire family's survival hinges on what happens next.
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