Epox!

Hello and welcome back to Epox, where I shall be continuing the story all about the life and career of King Henry VI and now King Edward the 4th, because their reigns effectively overlap, or do overlap.

The Wars of the Roses. We're talking about the Wars of the Roses. So just to recap you where we were last time. The yorkists, Edward VIII, the sun in splendour. This son of york had basically won. There was a battle of Chooksbury, which was a decisive yulchist victory. So we've had that. And then over the next two, three, four years even, Warwick, the arch yYorkist kingmaker, Warwick, puts down all sorts of

final pockets of Lancasterian revolt and rebellion all over the country. Sometimes they flip

back to the Lancashrians. It's far from straightforward. But it's basically a full

Lancasterian victory. Sorry, a full Yorkist victory. Ford Yorkist victory. Edward VIII is the king, sort of completely undisputed king. Even the old king, Henry

the 6th, is just in prison, he's in the tower. They haven't executed him or anything yet.

But he's in the tower. He's completely under their power and the queen, the bad queen, Margaret of Vonshu,

and the Prince of Wales and Edward are just in exile in France, licking their wounds,

hoping to not get murdered or assassinated. So full Yorkist victory at this point. We left off

last time when I was talking about Edward's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, where Warwick

and the whole court really

had expected the unmarried King Edward IV, young, still in his early 20s, to marry a French

princess or some sort of European princess or duchess, but he revealed that actually he was already

married to a minor Lancastrian woman, Elizabeth Woodville, who's already got two kids.

Her husband had been killed.

And apparently she was very, very beautiful.

And he'd married her.

And so that's it.

And Warwick didn't like that.

Warwick was becoming too overly powerful, as far as Edward was concerned, too overly powerful

and too arrogant and too ambitious.

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