Epox!

Epox!

Hello and welcome back to Epox where I should be continuing my story all about the English monarchy and specifically the Wars of the Roses and the reign now of

Edward VIII.

If you remember last time we finished up more or less with the complete Yorkist victory

over the house of Lancaster at Chukesbury at Barnet

where the Kingmaker was slain and then at Chooksbury the final final battle the final end

of the Lancasterian attempts to regain the throne and after that they decided they sort of had

to do away with the old mad king

Henry the 6th the son of Henry the 5th so now it really is just the full full that really was

the full yorkish victory final victory at that point so nothing stops does it nothing ever

stops the narrative the story continues time pauses for no man. So what happens next? Because

the whole saga certainly isn't over. If you remember at the beginning of this series, I said

that basically the whole thing you can say sort of ends in 1485. We're still only here in

1471. That's when Henry 6th was murdered, 1471, but the whole saga

isn't really over until 1485 at Bosworth Field, the Battle of Bosworth Field, when Henry

Tudor, Henry the 7th, Henry the 8th's father, finally wins. So what happens in the next 14 years?

It's a big one. Ultimately, it's the story of,

in the end, anyway, we've got a period of calm, but in the end, the implosion of the House of

York. The House of Lancaster lasted three generations. If you cast your mind back, you had

the old Richard II, the son of the black prince, the grandson, legit grandson of

Edward III, the last true plantaginant, he was usurped and murdered, probably murdered,

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