Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here is your 30-second summary.

Born on the chessboard of the Wars of the Roses, the Red Queen and the White Queen were blocked and battled their entire lives until a brief moment when they worked together to change the course of history.

Welcome to the show!

Hi, we are talking about the tutors who are continuing our Tutor series.

And this week we're discussing two women who, back it refers to as the Tutor Grandmothers.

It's a Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth Woodville. They were the grandmothers of Henry VIII.

One was of the House of Lancaster, the other of the House of York.

So they were enemies, turned allies, turned enemies, never friends.

Not a friend, no.

Allies, the best we can say.

I think so. Between them, they changed the course of history.

And you know what these ladies remind me of.

There are these super cute, really dekeky things called weather houses.

They almost look like pukuklocks.

The little handmade chingles. They're usually two figures.

They swing in and out of doorways.

The nice, sunny, happy one comes out when it's going to be sunny outside.

And then the barometric pressure changes and the dark one comes out.

And it's going to rain.

These ladies are clearly the figures in a weather house because they can never be on the sun at the same time.

One is in, one is out.

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