PREVIEW: Epochs #253 | Henry VI - Part 2
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Epox! |
| 0:16.3 | Hello and welcome back to Epox. |
| 0:22.5 | I shall be continuing the story this week all about the life of Henry the 6th, |
| 0:27.7 | the little baby or the little boy, the young man now, as I'll start telling the story, |
| 0:32.1 | the little baby of Henry V. |
| 0:34.4 | Do you remember last time? |
| 0:35.5 | Henry the 5th had died an inoperatory moment in the middle of |
| 0:39.2 | the war's of 100 years war and left his younger brothers to look after his baby son, who |
| 0:46.8 | was now growing up. |
| 0:47.6 | If you remember last time I finished off, last thing I said, I think, was talking about |
| 0:51.8 | how Henry the 6th had been married to one Margaret von |
| 0:55.3 | Ju, when he was still in his teens. |
| 0:59.1 | So we'll pick up the story there. |
| 1:00.9 | I'll be reading from Professor Sir Charles Oman and Sir Winston Churchill, the history of the |
| 1:07.1 | English-speaking peoples. |
| 1:08.2 | And the thing we'll have to start getting into this week, which is really the story of the Wars of the Roses, is the family tree. Now, it's quite complicated. |
| 1:16.3 | At various times, I will, should put up an image showing the family tree to help it make sense, |
| 1:23.5 | because it is quite complicated. But basically, bear this in mind the whole time is that nearly |
| 1:28.6 | everyone involved in this are cousins. Sometimes the Wars of the Roses are called the Cousin Wars. |
| 1:35.3 | And this is it in a nutshell. There will be lots and lots of characters here, lots of different |
| 1:38.9 | people, and I'll try and explain it as best I can and try and keep reminding you who's who |
| 1:43.8 | and who's related to |
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