Hello and welcome back to Epox. This week I shall be continuing my story of Henry V, the reign and achievements of Henry V.

Apologies for the Interregnum there talking about Lawrence of Arabia for a few weeks.

So back to the story of Henry VIII. So I'm going to continue the story of Henry VIII before he goes to France for the Agincourt campaign.

And it's a period of about a year, a bit more than a year.

But all sorts of things happen in that time.

So let's go through that period and hopefully we can get up to the French campaign and

Halfleur and all that sort of thing.

But quite a few different things go on.

So I should continue reading from Anne Currie's book,

Henry V, Playboy Prince to Warrior King, because as I said before,

I feel like out of all the books I've read, which is quite a few to be honest,

I feel like she covers this period the best.

Probably won't use her all that much for the actual military campaigning

stuff, but again for this period, she's very good. So she starts talking about here,

the financial side of things, because that's a big part of the story. You know, it's very

expensive to have foreign wars and medieval kings, their relationship with Parliament, where they get given money, essentially,

or get given oversight over levying taxes, that relationship is really important.

And Henry V's father, Boddingbroke, Henry VIII, had had a bad relationship with his

parliaments, basically. They kind of never really trusted him

or he'd asked them for too much. He'd made promises often that he'd do things in return for

monies and then didn't do them or only did them in a half-assed sort of a way. So his relationship

with parliaments and therefore money was always strained and so Henry

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