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Sailing from France an invading army is about to land in Wales the leader of this army was a refugee a fugitive a man who had spent half of his 28 years on the run and who barely had a claim to the throne of England his name was Henry Tuda and as King Henry, he would create the dynasty that bore his name, the Tudas, but Henry II remains obscure, overshadowed by the Monarch, he deposed Richard III for the glamor and notoriety of his wife who killed his son Henry VII and the charisma of his granddaughter Isabel. However, Henry theith is possibly the

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extraordinary story of all, with a hunger for power and a fierce determination to cling to the throne at all costs.

He would rewrite history by ta

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the crown and rebuilding the

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y in his own image. He would become paranoid. later described as an infinitely suspicious ruler, a dark prince, his reign seen as a grim, wintry landscape for years. I have explored his murky history of spies and informants, intrigue and extortion, and found that the deeper you dig, the more you discover fascinating glimpses of this manipulative King who created one of the strangest regimes in history, magnificent, oppressive and terrifying, this is the Henry's story with the first Tudor, this is Henry, is what remains of his funerary effigy that was paraded through the streets of London after his death dressed in his Parliament. robe and clutching his Orban State Scepter, we can see his fine-boned features and the distinctive hue in his left eye, but this is also a face haggard and ravaged by illness and stress, it is the face of a man who has never known Henry's journey in A Moment of Peace.

To fulfill his improbable destiny she took him to Milford Haven on Sunday, August 7, 4 85. His little fleet appeared from the south and anchored silently in Mil Bay. Henry's ships drop anchor here and his men disembark and we can imagine them throwing ammunition into the sea. beach cannons horses crossing the waves Henry Wade is on land and when he reaches this beach to the sand he kneels he raises his eyes to heaven he puts his hands together in prayer and says Judge me Oh Lord and favor my cause Henry would need all the help he could to obtain for his army was a heterogeneous group of political dissidents and foreign mercenaries.

A mix of different accents filled the air. Henry had deliberately chosen this distant, windswept corner of Wales. He wanted to sneak in undetected, giving her time to build support in his country. Homeland before facing Richard II's much larger army, so this invasion really feels more than anything else, it al

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doesn't feel like an invasion, it feels very sneaky and anxious, you know the odds are against you . Henry headed north toward the homeland. from his stepfather, Lord Stanley, the Stanley, a powerful noble family had half promised Henry their support, the plan was to head for London, but Richard's army was now on his heels, he had no choice but to turn and fight on the eve of the battle.

Henry knew Richard. The army was only a few miles away and greatly outnumbered his own, so tomorrow he would claim the Throne of England or die trying early on the morning of August 22, 1485. 5 Henry advanced from here towards the a lot of Richard. The largest army deployed on the ridge here was Sir William Stanley with his men watching as the battle unfolded. Stanley kept his options open. He just wanted to back a winner seeing Henry's army fragmented. Richard saw his opportunity and charged in on the two men. he fought face to face and Henry's standard bearer was felled and it was at that moment probably when he saw Henry's banner begin to collapse that William Stanley made his faithful decision at the crucial moment when Stanley's army was massing on Henry's side , it was said to be because of Richard.

F, bravely like a true

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, one of Henry's men supposedly heard him shout, "I will die like a king this day or win," and Richard himself was swept away. Richard III, the king of England, was brutally beaten to death mid-morning, it was all on Henry's men. He moved a bus around the battlefield, relieving the dead and dying of valuables from him, piling bodies on carts on a nearby hill. Lord Stanley placed the dead king's ciret on Henry's head to the shouts of acclamation from his troops. Against all odds, Henry had achieved the impossible, this man who had been a refugee and fugitive for half his

life

had won the crown of England.

The Battle of Bosworth might have been over but the real fight was about to begin for more than half a century. century No

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had passed the crown without disturbances and a dynasty would have been built. a battle Henry would fight for the rest of his

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. I'm taking off my shoes because I'm about to step foot into what is one of the most extraordinary pieces of medieval art not only in England but in Europe. This is incredible, it feels. It is amazing to be here, every single English king and queen since 138 has been crowned in this very spot here and it was here on October 30, 1485 that Henry II was crowned.

It was a glorious triumphant occasion and Henry must have felt so even though he had achieved almost the Impossible, this was an affirmation of his victory at Bosworth, it was a vindication of all he had done and prayed for on the beach at Milford Haven, but perhaps there was also a sense of something more after all. Henry had seen the crowned king Richard III murdered, stripped, mutilated and left naked on the back of a donkey without even a cloth to cover his genitals and he knew that what had happened to Richard II could also happen to him.

Henry's claim to the throne. His precarious mother, Lady Margaret B, provided the only thread of royal blood in Henry's veins. The Botts were a large but illegitimate Lancastrian family, who were prohibited from claiming the throne on the other side of his family. Henry's grandfather Oen Chuda, a fast-talking Welsh servant, had

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ly married Henry VI's widow Catherine some 50 years earlier - not exactly the ideal pedigree for a king. Henry was born a nobleman, the Earl of Richmond, but his education in exile had left him inexperienced in government, making him a keen observer and a man. who gave nothing to make England believe that Henry was the rightful king, he would have to behave as such and that is exactly what he did.

Parliament has met in Westminster for more than 800 years. Official records of their debates, meetings and proceedings date back to the Middle Ages. In early November 1485, Henry II's first Parliament met; he would use it to address the uncomfortable truth of Richard II's reign and to rework recent events to suit him and here is the written evidence from the parliamentary record showing how he did just that in this record Richard II is the usurper Henry II is the rightful king setting the record straight Richard III is known as the late Duke of Gloucester and later, in fact, and not in law, king of England and his legislation is known as the act of false and malicious imaginations there was one thing in particular during this Parliament that Henry did that caused a wave of unrest across the commons.

He rewrote history. It simply consists of a date. Here now, the Battle of Bosworth was fought on August 22, 1485, but here, Henry the 7th has dated his Reign as the 21st in Roman numerals, the day of August last, that is, the day before the battle was fought. battle, we might ask what's in a day, going back to his Reign to the day before he defeated Richard III and became King Henry. By effectively accusing all those who had supported Richard III on the battlefield of treason, the Commons were shocked, but in practice there was very little they could do about it.

Henry had won his battle and was king and here he is enshrined in the parliamentary record. For the best gift ever this holiday season, enjoy unlimited access to award-winning podcasts and thousands of hours of original history documentaries published weekly exclusively on History Hit. There are themes for all history lovers, from Pompeii to D-Day, sign up via the link in the description for an exclusive discount don't miss this amazing opportunity to explore the past like never before with history struck with Parliament stitched Henry's next move would further strengthen his position a marriage to cement all his dynastic ambitions was a strategic partnership the fulfillment of a pact made while in exile The pact on which his invasion was founded over the previous 30 years had seen England torn apart in what would become known as the Wars of the Roses, the House of Lancaster represented by the red rose against the house of York represented by the White Rose The accession of Richard III in 1483 divided the house of York, imprisoned his young nephews.

Two princes in the tower and he proclaimed himself king. The princes were never seen again. His supporters fled to Brittany, where they found the young Henry of Lancaster a refugee in exile and agreed to support Henry's challenge to the throne, but only if he married Elizabeth of York, daughter of the late King Edward IV, would it be a union that held promise. reconcile a divided England, but Henry needed something. To reinforce this union, something that would link this new dynasty with the English crown in the minds of his subjects, so he brought decorators from Westminster, the seat of government, and plastered his family's emblems on the walls, ceilings and windows, and included such a powerful symbol.

In its simplicity we still recognize it to this day, of course it is a Victorian building, but we can get an idea of ​​how Henry implemented and used these insignia and emblems; We can still see his mother's insignia both in Port Cullis and next to it, the most significant emblem of all: Henry's red rose. Henry's revival of a rather obscure Lancastrian emblem. The red rose was a masterstroke. What it allowed her to do was place his own rather incomplete credentials on a par with those of his wife Isabel. of yorg the white rose and together these two roses would combine to create the most powerful and enduring emblem in English royal history The red and white rose the Tudor Rose Henry was making his mark on the nation but of course the Tuda Rose alone could be truly embodied by a vital air if Henry wanted to build a dynasty and Henry would not have to wait long.

It is named after King Arthur, the mythical king of Great Britain. Prince Arthur was born early on the rain-lashed morning of September 20, 1486 in the legendary Winchester. seat of Camelot this is a wonderful book and very rare it is a songbook from the court of Henry V 7 and we can see in this songbook a song that celebrates the birth of Prince Arthur and it says precisely this I love the rose both red and white that runs It is that your pure and perfect appetite to hear about them is my delight, happy, that we are our Prince to see and the three roses, in other words, Arthur was the embodiment of the red rose and the white one, he was the Tudorose rose embodied Henry and Elizabeth were lucky to have more children, including another son.

Henry was building the myth that he and his family were the true and legitimate Royal Blood of England, but there were those who simply did not believe it, in fact, they would rewrite History on his behalf to expose Henry. for the usurper he was what we have here is a genealogical paper these family trees were the property of kings and nobles to describe and sometimes invent their glorious ancestors and it is this part that interests us in particular and that tells us why Henry was so very afraid and what was he afraid of we begin here with Edward III, the Plantagen king from whom both the Yorkists and the Lancastrians drew their lines of descent.

We can see here the line of Lancaster descending through Henry IV, Henry V, Victor de aen cor and Henry. V 6 and then it stops because the Lancastrians are exterminated and this thick red line is what this paper believes to be the main line of royal ancestry and it runs from the Yorkist king to Edward IV and his wife Elizabeth Woodville, the main line Of ancestry. It continues with Richard III, but as we can see the line ends, in reality it is unfinished. Henry is noticeably absent from this glorious vision of English royalty. Henry II doesn't fit in at all, he's squished here and then a thick black line traces his ancestry. the way up and past the Lancaster line is not meaningfully connected to it and it goes on and on up here, not to any king but simply to Uda, a chamber servant, so this role was composed for a family who took a very poor view of Henry II's claim to the throne, in fact, what is more, they believe that they were not the rightful kings of England, the role belonged to a large Yorkist family called John Deapool, the Earl of Lincoln of Delap, He was related to the late King Richard III and claimed that Richard had named him heir to the throne.

John Deapool, Earl of Lincoln, would in fact instigate the first serious rebellion of Henry V's reign 7 in 1487. Lincoln's forces clashed with Henry's troops at theEast Midlands, but there would be no dead king. As had occurred at the Battle of Bosworth, Henry's hardened army massacred Lincoln's men and Lincoln himself was massacred. Henry had won a decisive victory and had eliminated a genuine Yorkist contender to the throne. Once this threat was eradicated, he set about consolidating his rule and looking for new ways to lead. home, the power and permanence of his Kingdom through magnificent architecture, an opulent house and the thing dearest to his heart, money, look at the first English gold sovereign, the first pound as currency, well, that is, uh it's an extraordinary privilege to actually see these Barry Cook looks after the medieval coin collection at the British Museum.

Henry VII is the first person who thinks I will create a pound coin and gives it this very special name Sovereign and what he does with the word sovereign is he says I am Sovereign. over my land of the whole royal packet it is not a currency that anyone uses in their daily life it is a way for the king to show his power and authority to spread his message to put it into circulation literally to spread the message and and somehow the audience for this it might not have been so much his own subjects but foreign visitors, so when the ambassadors were visiting, H would have given them a sort of royal gift bag, so to speak, and along with them he would have given them a number. of these, a takeaway souvenir from Henry's England, as it is absolutely the huge stoned gold coin, what does that tell you about the person who casually gives it to you?

Usually only the head of the Monarch appeared, but here Henry is seated at full length on a large Orban Throne, scepter in hand and the Imperial Crown on his head, the image of a king, but the most important part of the coin is on the reverse, this is a Rosa Tuda, isn't it? It is again the tradition in the medieval period. It had a cross on the back of a coin, but now we have the double rose and the arms of England superimposed on it. He is very specifically associating the coat of arms of England with the symbols of the Tuda family, the Tud dynasty, both of them. they are inextricably intertwined the image is the reality um for power that's what these things are they are the only way for one ruler to get the message across to the greatest number of people before the other to the modern world.

They are the only means of communication, so what is in them? is very important, but while Henry began to convince the international community that he was here to stay home, the old rivalry simmered and the aftermath of the rebellion spread in early 1493. Henry learned of another plot. The Yorkist exiles in Europe were grooming a young man called Perkin Warbeck to pose as one of the princes in the tower and were raising an army to invade England for Henry, this was a disaster, many had accepted him as king only because the princes in the tower they were presumed dead, now with this supposed reappearance their loyalties would be torn after a decade of fighting to establish their dynasty, this was a threat that Henry had to dissipate.

Henry wove an outside surveillance network. He was always calm and inscrutable, revealing nothing, but this masked a savage intensity. He embedded spies in suspicious homes who interviewed his servants. and the chaplain and the confessors to whom they opened their souls and discovered with horror that the trail of the conspiracy led him very close to home, in fact, right to the heart of the royal house, to his Lord Chamberlain, who was responsible for the affairs personal of the king. Surely, this man was none other than Sir William Stanley, whose intervention had won Henry the Battle of Bosworth.

When Henry's men searched Stanley's house, they found a Yorkist livery collar adorned with white roses and £10,000, enough money to finance an army. Henry began to feel that he would never be able to convince everyone that he was the rightful king; he would need to become even more vigilant, starting with how he ran his household, this being the fabulous Great Hall at Hampton Court. Henry's royal houses were destroyed centuries ago, but Hampton Court is laid out. In the same vein, this is the inspiring public face of the royal household and just to enter here you would have had to have been one of the many hundreds of servants who worked here on a regular basis or an accredited visitor, but the King here, resided in the state apartments which began behind this heavily guarded door and if his name was not written he would not enter, this is one of the great public apartments and on Court holidays it would have been full of nobles, courtiers, diplomats, petitioners of all kinds hoping to catch a glimpse of the king, but it was this door that people most wanted to pass through and behind which very few were admitted.

Behind this door was the

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or private chamber, the private chamber. The apartments where the king worked slept, ate and relaxed and it was what happened behind this door that would become synonymous with the reign of Henry VII with the discovery of the Stanley Plot the privy chamber was closed before its operation was completed. transparent but only with the new security review those who would best please the king were admitted, so at the heart of this brilliant house there was an institutional black hole whose operation was only known to Henry himself within the private chamber. Things were changing.

Enrique was obsessed with control, especially when it came to money. of the treasury of his privy chamber was expanding these books are accounts of the chamber, they are payment books and the interesting thing about these books is that they represent Henry's very personal control over the finances. These account books are brought to him and he will check everything and do it. sign it at the bottom we have everything from salaries for trumpeters to barbers Minstrel queens trumpeter princes Falcons brought from Hungary Falcons brought from Hungary brilliant quite a trip brilliant historian Shan Cunningham has been studying Henry's account books this shows that money It comes directly into Henry's personal coffers and these pages are written by Henry himself.

I love this particular entry, we have an Ood money delivery on heavy old crowns, you can feel it weighing it in your hand, that's it, just seeing what he chooses a heavy crown, oh that's good and then and then and then I like them these good crowns, yes, these are some of these are some good crowns that we have here and there are thousands of pounds in bundles passing through the king's hands literally through the king's hands to Henry. Money meant security and control and how. He used that was key, there are all sorts of unofficial activities, for example you will have quite substantial rewards of tens or perhaps hundreds of pounds which are sometimes given to strangers to reward people across the sea or certain people who travel . the king's affairs and here this one is interesting Sean, who is this, this is Charles, probably Sir Charles Terset, who was one of the king's masters of intelligence, yes, from a man of Flanders to something or other in official matters, Lack of all the details, isn't it?

It's a little frustrating. Well, it's always a clue. If you don't have the details, you get the feeling that he is on His Majesty's Secret Service. Henry was building a dense network of spies. and informants whose reach would extend to the farthest, darkest corners of the kingdom, mapping the political loyalties of his subjects and placing under surveillance those most likely to cause trouble in 1497. Warbeck The Yorkist Pretender who had caused Henry so much anxiety over the years. he was captured and eventually executed as the new century began. Henry II had been on the throne for 15 years.

Only now did he feel truly safe. Things seemed good. Henry completed his magnificent new house in West London and named it after his Richmond town here. In his maze of rooms, Enrique could monitor his allies and keep a close eye on his enemies. The Spanish ambassador was clearly impressed by the state of the nation. England, he said, was remarkably quiet. Before writing, there had always been a number of competing claims to territory. throne, but now only the true blood of Henry II remained with Queen Elizabeth and her first-born son and Prince Arthur, not a drop of dubious royal blood remained in the Kingdom, the stage was now set for the most significant moment of the reign of Enrique so far. a royal marriage that had taken a decade to negotiate;

His eldest son, Prince Arthur, would marry a great Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, for Henry it would be the culmination of all he had strived to put the seal on his dynastic ambitions and the celebrations would be glorious in the early hours of the On the afternoon of Friday 12 November 151 Catherine's procession entered the city across London Bridge. It was a damp, gray and drizzly afternoon but what awaited her was spectacular, the first stage in the long series of fortnights of celebrations of Catherine. weddings that would take place Enrique's definitive public relations event and would show his main source of political capital.

His children. London was in a carnival atmosphere. The crowded streets were a riot of color. Accompanying Catherine of Aragan in her procession through London was the king's youngest son, aged 10. Prince Henry already loved Limelight, he was a child with a popular touch, but one thing was clear to everyone and Catherine in particular, she was about to become part of something very special, but for one spectator this lavish occasion caused unrest among the masses. The one who lined the route craning his neck to catch a glimpse of the princess was a young law student named Thomas Moore.

He later described the procession. Catherine had captivated him. She was so beautiful. She said her words couldn't do him justice, but she finished. a slightly hesitant note. I hope she said that these celebrations will prove to be a happy omen. It was as if in their splendor and magnificence the festivities were somehow tempting fate. The wedding was a triumph. The Tudor myth was becoming reality, but as Arthur and Katherine left London to begin their married life it would not be long before Thomas Moore's words came true late on April 4, 152 as a ship docked in Greenwich. where the king and queen resided on board there was a messenger who brought terrible news to Prince Arthur. he had contracted the virulent sweating sickness and was dead.

Henry was devastated on St George's Day. Prince Arthur was buried here in Worcester Cathedral, far from Westminster and the glare of international attention. It was a funeral fit for a prince that reflected the scale of the tragedy as A requim mass was sung through this gate, the west gate, and among crowds of mourners rode a man on horseback wearing Arthur's plate armor and Wielding a poax sword downwards, the man-at-arms rode a black-caped warhorse across the Nave and entered the choir in Arthur's coat. of weapons, his sword and shield, the symbols of his earthly roles were offered and his body in a coffin was lowered into his grave to have seen the crying when the offering was made, wrote A Herald, he had a hard heart that did not cry, this It is Arthur's Chapel, his final resting place the political impact of Arthur's death was immense the Chuda dynasty now hung in the balance the future of the dynasty now rested on the shoulders of Arthur's younger brother, Prince Henry, the The king's only surviving child, but Elizabeth assured the king that they were still young enough to have more children and sure enough, within a few months she was pregnant, the royal house moved here, to the tower where Elizabeth was to give birth. , she went into confinement surrounded by her ladies and gentlemen, but it was a traumatic, premature birth with a raging temperature in which she slipped and out of consciousness, Henry was out of it.

Couriers traveled all night to summon specialists, but nothing worked. On February 11, 1503, Elizabeth died on her 37th birthday. Their marriage had been one of genuine love and Henry was devastated by its loss, but of course their marriage had also represented something more, the union of Lancaster and York, the reunification of England after decades of civil war, many had accepted Henry as king out of loyalty to Elizabeth's Yorkist family, now his death threatened to tear the country apart once again, perhaps nothing summed up the situation Henry now found himself in better than a poem Thomas Moore wrote on the occasion of the death by Elizabeth Where Are Our Castles Now?

Mo's poem read where are our towers? Good Richmond you will soon leave me at Westminster that expensive work of yours my dear Lord, now I will never see that Mo was referring to the new Chapel that Henry VII was building in Westminster Abbey, adorned with all the familiar symbols of his reign, the bo in Port Cullis and the rose tudah, the chapel was intended to be yet another Monument to the The splendor of the dynastyby Enrique Thomas Moore's poem touched the heart of the matter. Henry could build all the magnificent buildings he wanted, but without his wife the very foundations of his rain were shaken, usually so inscrutably.

Henry's reaction to Elizabeth's death was one of complete physical collapse in retreat. In the depths of Richmond he nearly died, but when he emerged 6 weeks later, the mask was back on and his drive for control was even more relentless. The cornerstones of his reign, his wife and his family, were gone and Henry's crown was more in his possession. Greater risk than ever: old enemies had resurfaced. John Deapool, who had instigated the first rebellion against Henry, had died 15 years earlier, but his younger brother, the Earl of Suffk, was now a man and on the loose across the continent, raising an increasingly suspicious and incapable army. to trust.

Henry saw conspiracies at every turn, but his determination was unwavering. He would hold on to the crown at any cost. If his subjects did not love him, they would have to fear him. Henry was perfecting a very effective system of repression in which his advisors were experts. extortion they forced the people to contract bonds and debts with the king to guarantee their good behavior and they found the people huge sums of money unpayable for everyone, from the nobles to the merchants, it was like being free on permanent bail, anyone who broke the conditions of these bonds faced the financial ruin that it now betrays. the king was not only unthinkable, it was unaffordable, this terrifying system was applied by an obscure court known as the council, learned in law, it was to become the most notorious expression of Henry's rule and the minutes of its meetings are recorded here in this book.

It was not legally constituted, it was not a court of record, but it was made up of several of Henry's most powerful legal advisors and this Council answered directly and solely to the king. It was based on information provided by the regime's network of informants and spies who provided details. about crimes committed or possible debts with the king and the interesting thing about what the council learned is that it nullifies many of the normal processes of government and law; could, for example, interrupt the normal legal processes that were underway and remove them from the The process removes them from the system and bring them in front of this group of counselors acts with total impunity is totally inexplicable this was a process that instilled fear, anger and frustration in those people who were caught up in their dealings with all the men associated with the council who perhaps knew the most infamous and powerful was a silver-tongued lawyer named Edmund Dudley.

Dudley had spent six years working in the City of London, networking and becoming intimately familiar with its power brokers, its key players, and the intricate web of rivalry, opportunism, and mistrust that bound the guilds together. and businesses and he saw firsthand the dubious dealings and corrupt transactions of the bankers and merchants who kept the city running when in the fall of 153 Dudley resigned from office. A grateful town gave him a golden handshake, but what the town didn't expect was that Dudley was going to work for the king. Dudley was a poacher who became a gamekeeper and was quickly drafted into royal service.

Henry assigned him an unprecedented role. Dudley's expertise lay in defining and enforcing the king's legal rights, poring over pages and pages of long-forgotten financial documents he used. Laws to inflict crushing financial penalties on Henry's subjects. Dudley described the mandate he had been given. Henry said that he wanted many people in danger to his liking subject to his excellency for large sums of money. What Dudley was doing was technically legal but he was bending the law. to its absolute limits was he, he said, Extraordinary Justice and nowhere was this Extraordinary Justice more thoroughly applied than on Dudley's own turf, the City of London.

But as time went on, the charges brought against people not only arose from obscure laws, sometimes they were completely Perhaps nothing sums up the atmosphere of confusion and terror in the city at this time more than a heinous extortion case involving the Prosperous London Hab aasher Thomas Sunn and his wife Alice Dudley falsely accused sniffers of murdering a newborn child and disposing of the body. In the temporary case, the false charges were designed to make it appear that the sniffers had broken an existing bond for good behavior. The fine for doing so was £500, a huge sum of money which Sunn refused to pay.

Instead, they took him to prison, where he remained. For 3 months, when his case finally came to court, the jury was rigged and the judges, intimidated by the king's lawyers, found him guilty with no prospect of release and fearing that he might have died in prison. Thomas Sniff finally broke and paid into his ledger. Dudley fined Sun £500 for his pardon for the boy's murder as his men increased his control over the city. Henry had an incredible stroke of luck: he received an unexpected guest at court in January 156 Philip of Burgundy, the man who protected the earl. from suffk on the continent he was shipwrecked on the coast of England seizing the opportunity Henry welcomed this powerful prince with lavish hospitality, but it was clear that Philip was trapped.

Henry would free him only if he agreed to hand over suffk to him and so, in mid-March, a The ship carrying the fugitive earl docked in the port of London, a heavily armed reception committee took him to the Tower. He would never come out. The threat of Suffk had finally disappeared, but two decades spent defending against the plot of rebellion and conspiracy had left their mark on this perpetual state of. the emergency had become a form of government and England was now in the grip of a system that people found both disorienting and terrifying. Henry's subjects were scared and resentful, but they knew that Henry could not remain imprisoned in Richmond forever.

His health had deteriorated. been failing for years, all eyes were on Prince Henry and what kind of King he was going to be since the death of Prince Arthur, the king had wrapped Prince Henry in cotton keeping him confined to the royal household in 157. The Prince Henry was becoming a brilliant, handsome and athletic teenager, but his father's control had begun to irritate the increasingly ill king. He was only too happy to show off his son. He allowed Prince Henry to organize the spring tournament. would be displayed, but not in the way his father had anticipated the tournaments would be. spectacular events that lasted for days and at their center featured the superheroes of the time, armed knights fighting on horseback, but although he was proving to be a brilliant fighter, Prince Henry was not allowed to fight, his father had already lost a son and was not willing to lose.

Another Toby Capwell is the curator of weapons for the Wallace Collection and has first-hand experience of the joust. There is always a risk in anything worth doing well and jousting would be meaningless if it were completely safe when you look at what they are fighting. it's safe, this is the safe type, it has three points on the head and that prevents the spear from penetrating too far, but still, if you can imagine being hit by one of these in your face at a speed of 40 m per hour or more In a collision that is in every way very similar to a car accident, the danger is what makes it significant.

Strong bonds were formed in the Jousting Arena between the Knights, their loyalties forged in combat like brothers in arms on a battlefield, so while Henry II commanded loyalty through financial control his son, Prince Henry, would form their bonds on the battlefield. He is clearly physically built very differently than his father, but he also thinks differently than him. Really, it's just a matter of Henry VII being perfectly aware of the importance of chivalry. and chalk display, but he just wasn't willing to back that up with his own body, while his son couldn't wait to get personally involved.

Prince Harry's friends put on a tremendously violent display of jousting, pushing the sport to its limits with blatant contempt. According to the rule book, it was a performance that the king and his advisors found alarming, but Prince Henry loved it. Caught up in the occasion, he chatted eagerly with low-ranking knights. His directness contrasted sharply with his father's remote Detachment, so people began to see the Prince. Henry, even at the tender age of 15, as someone who would be a return to a traditional type of king who valued honor and glory over money, would privilege nobles over lawyers and accountants, a completely Different from that of his calculating and distant father, loyalties imperceptibly began to change. shift in January 159 Henry VII locked himself in Richmond his health was failing once again only this time he would not recover at 11:00 on the night of Saturday April 21, 159 Henry V 7 died he had brought the kingdom to the brink of almost, but not quite, dynastic succession, this is a pen and ink drawing of the scene around Henry's bed in his private chamber at the time of his death.

Here we can see one of the king's gentlemen closing Henry's eyes at the moment of his death and we can see here the doctors holding jars of urine. Among those present were some of Henry's oldest and closest servants of the last century. The deaths of kings have brought violence and instability to England and they were determined to make sure the same thing didn't happen this time. now the 14 people in this picture were the only people who knew that Henry VII had died, they had a unique opportunity to order events for their own benefit and this is precisely what they did.

They agreed to keep the King's death a secret for 2 days until the court met for the gter party on St. George's Day, but to pave the way for Prince Henry's succession there would need to be scapegoats to take the blame. of the evils that had been committed in his father's name, the new regime had to send an emphatic declaration that it would not be like the old one of those who were not at court on St. George's Day was Edmund Dudley was at the town Dudley had not understood how resentful and isolated his quickly acquired power had made him and consequently he did not watch his back he had become the unacceptable face of the ancien regime he was thrown into the tower on trumped up charges of treason and finally executed when Henry VII, At the age of 17, he was proclaimed king.

He worked with a populist touch by issuing a general pardon that promised reform, justice, and redress of grievances. Thomas Moore's coronation poem celebrated the arrival of this spectacular new young king and contrasted the rain that was to come with the dark days that had just passed. This day is the end of our slavery. the beginning of our freedom the end of sadness the source of joy now he said there were no thieves with his cunning hands and no more Fear whispers secrets in the ear this king is loved Mo also said that the coronation of the new King It was like the arrival of a new season, but this reference to the seasons also said something else; in fact, it underscored a contrast that was further emphasized throughout his poem.

If there was to be a new spring of joy and freedom, it had to follow a

winter

of repression. and fear if Henry VII were the spring. Henry VII had been the

winter

. Henry VII's funeral procession through the streets of London with his effigy displayed in a carriage drawn by five horses wrapped in black velvet, but despite all the criticism of his reign, Henry VII had still achieved what he had set out to do. handed down the crown of England Westminster Abbey is a National Shrine, the burial place of kings, politicians, poets and playwrights, and this is where Henry VII was buried in the chapel he had been building for the last 6 years. years it was one of the architectural wonders of the time it was described in the 16th century as miraculous orbis universali The wonder of the whole world and it really is an amazing building this spectacular melum is Henry's definitive statement to the world, it is not what we might expect from a winter miser king, so here they are Henry buried according to his last will and testament alongside his beloved wife Elizabeth.

These are idealized portraits of Henry and Elizabeth as they were in their prime. They are meant to be eternal figures of royalty and queen. More than 500 years after his death, Henry's Chapel remains at the heart of British political life and is a testament to his extraordinary determination and will to power everything he aspired and wanted to be from an isolated beach in Wales, where He landed with few rights. the throne and less hope he fought and won his battles he unified a kingdom immense wealth came but his greatest legacyIt would only become clear with time running around the tomb there is an inscription that says that he was the richest, the most intelligent, the most dignified, the most glorious of kings and Isabel his wife was the most beautiful, the most persecuted and the most fruitful not only had their marriage been happy but, more importantly, it had also produced children.

The inscription concludes by saying that the land of England should consider itself. Particularly fortunate among the most prominent of those descendants, the current King Henry VII. Lucky, old England. Henry VII's reign would be turbulent in the extreme, but it was also his father's greatest achievement. Henry VII had created our most famous and notorious dynasty, the Tutors.