The Wars of the Roses, Part 3 of 3
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🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time. |
| 0:10.0 | Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit |
| 0:15.0 | because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top |
| 0:20.0 | and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch. |
| 0:25.0 | Join in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks. |
| 0:34.0 | It is the 14th of April 1483. |
| 0:38.0 | A crow takes flight into the cool morning air, calling loudly as it soars over the misty |
| 0:44.0 | battlements of Ludlow Castle near the border between England and Wales. |
| 0:49.0 | The fortress stands proudly on a rocky promontory above the river, a potent symbol of Yorkist authority |
| 0:56.0 | throughout the Wars of the Roses. A boy of 12 dressed in close-fitting bridges and a loose tabard |
| 1:03.0 | is practicing his swordsmanship with his tutor in the courtyard. |
| 1:07.0 | Watching him from a window above stands a stately gentleman. |
| 1:12.0 | Forty-three years old his strong face is lined by long years of fighting either in wars or tournaments. |
| 1:20.0 | His long blue and red tabard displays the golden griffins of the Woodville family. |
| 1:26.0 | Antony Woodville, Earl Rivers is the younger brother of Queen Elizabeth, the wife of the Yorkist |
| 1:33.0 | King Edward IV. Despite fighting on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Tauten |
| 1:39.0 | as the King's brother-in-law Earl Rivers has been trusted with raising Edward's son and heir, |
| 1:44.0 | also named Edward the Young Prince of Wales. |
| 1:49.0 | Suddenly there's a shout from the men at the gates and soon hooves clatter on the cobblestones as a messenger rides into the courtyard. |
| 1:57.0 | Prince Edward stops his swordplay and runs to talk to the visitor. |
| 2:02.0 | But as the messenger dismounts, Earl Rivers can see his face is grave. |
| 2:09.0 | It doesn't take long before the messenger is shown in to meet Rivers by a servant. |
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