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Hello and welcome back to Epox. This episode, I thought what I shall do is continue on with my series all about the British monarchy.

Return to that. I feel like it's Epox bread and butter. Why not return to it? It's been a while now.

So let's just pick up the story. If you remember last time, we left off, I did a very long series all about the life and career of Henry V.

Got all the way up to Henry the fifth's death. So we'll carry on the story from there.

So his son, the next king, is Henry the 6th. You've got Henry the 4th, 5th and 6th, all one after the other.

Now I'll have to recap a bit on Henry V and how the whole story was left.

Because if you remember, Henry the Fifth was a great martial king, a great warrior king, arguably one of the very very best we ever had.

And he died suddenly, not a suicide, but he died really quite suddenly. He was in the middle of fighting campaigns in France, doing very, very well.

He'd got himself a deal with the King of France to disinherit the Dauphin, the French,

the French prince, and that when the old French king, he wasn't long for this world anyway,

when he died, the Crown of France would pass to him, Henry.

Henry would then be, him and the fifth, would then be king of France and England. Finally,

probably, you would have thought, hopefully, ending the hundred years war, which was longer than

100 years ultimately, but ending that whole war and just uniting the two crowns in one person.

And so everything was set for that, really. And Henry had a son,

a baby heir, and he was only like, what, nine months old, 10 months old, a tiny little baby in a crib still.

And then Henry, the fifth, out of nowhere, gets dysentery and dies. Fools ill and within a few

weeks of catching something, almost certainly dysentery,

a bloody flux, as they called it. Dyers of that. He just died of it. Now, this is a massive

turning point in history, at least in Western European history, northwestern European history,

French and English history. Massive turning point because it was a really inopportune

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