Henry had gained his victory with the support of those Yorkists who had turned against Richard III after theĭisappearance of Edward IV’s sons, the princes in the Tower. He did not know England and wasĪcutely aware that what had been won by the sword could as easily be lost by it. The 28-year-old who won the battle of Bosworth in 1485 was a leader of some charm, even charisma, but also a damaged man, ‘infinitely suspicious’. But that provides just a brief prologue to Winter King. Survived against the odds, and won his…throne against even greater odds, is one of the world’s great adventures’. As Starkey observes, ‘The story of how Henry Tudor He spent the next 14 years in exile, at constant risk of being handed over to the Yorkist King Edward IV, and later, Richard III. By mid 1471 Henry was the last man standing in the house of Violent death was the common lot of many of his relations, royal as well as non-royal. Henry was born at theīeginning of the Wars of the Roses, in 1457. His mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a descendent of an illegitimate son of John of Gaunt, founder of the House of Lancaster. Henry V’s French widow, Katherine of Valois. His father was the product of a scandalous marriage between a Welsh chamber servant, Owen Tudor, and The first Tudor King had no legitimate English royal blood and no legal right to the throne.
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