The Wars of the Roses
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The Wars of the Roses brought what had once been Europe’s most stable and well-governed kingdom to its knees. Weakness at the center, in the form of the useless King Henry VI, reverberated outwards throughout the political system. Could England survive Henry VI, and at what cost?
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| 0:18.2 | Grey clouds hung low in the sky, thick and threatening. |
| 0:22.6 | Snow swirled downward, caught in the grip of a howling northern wind. |
| 0:27.7 | It was December 30th, 1460. |
| 0:30.6 | It was time for a king to die. |
| 0:33.4 | Or at least the man who would be kin. |
| 0:36.2 | Richard, Duke of York, heir to the English throne and one of the most powerful nobles in |
| 0:41.0 | England, was forced to his knees on a muddy and blood-soaked battlefield. |
| 0:46.0 | The soldiers holding Richard captive pulled off his helmet and jammed a rough paper crown |
| 0:50.8 | down onto his head. |
| 0:53.3 | It made a mockery of his claims to the throne. |
| 0:55.6 | A mockery reinforced by the jeers and shouts of his captors. |
| 1:00.0 | There had been a battle here and the Duke of York had lost. |
| 1:03.6 | The corpses of his friends and supporters, one of them his 17-year-old son, littered the |
| 1:08.3 | ground. |
| 1:09.9 | The landcastrians, supporters of Queen Margaret of Anjou and her feckless husband King Henry |
| 1:14.8 | VI had won. |
| 1:17.0 | The landcastrians had called it rebellion. |
| 1:19.8 | Richard had called it pursuing his rights. |
| 1:23.3 | No matter what you called it, now Richard would pay the price. |
| 1:28.3 | One of the soldiers produced a rough wooden stoke, a chopping block. |
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