Richard III vs Henry VII
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is That a Fair Description of the House of Yong?
When he comesto hethrone, his government has a very yorkist flavour to it. He's surrounded by all those men who had worked for edward the fourth. But henry turns out not to be quite as pliable once he's got his feet under the table. And he starts to rule in his own way and get rid of some of that yorkist influence. i would disagree that many of the people who took the field at the battle of bosworth did it because they were concerned for the fate of edward theFourth's children. We know that in england nobody really new what that fate was. There were a few rumours reported with no kind of
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