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Historian Dan Jones returns with This Is History: The Tudors. Season one gives you the extraordinary origin story of England’s most iconic royal family.
This is the ultimate story of kings and queens, seduction and spectacle, where power is seized in private chambers, performed in public and, too often, lost on an executioner’s block. In just over a century, the Tudors alter the fabric of the state and Church. Theirs is the era of the Reformation, of Shakespeare, and of voyages to the New World.
Their story starts on 22 August 1485. At the bloody Battle of Bosworth Field, Henry Tudor defeated King Richard III, ending more than three centuries of Plantagenet rule and claiming the English throne as Henry VII.
As the embers of the Wars of the Roses finally cool, Henry VII discovers that winning a crown is far easier than keeping one.
Too soon, die-hard Richardians team up with a vengeful English princess and plot to replace Henry with pretenders. One is a ten-year-old boy, another, a Flemish teenager who reinvents themselves as long-lost princes. England is once more plunged into chaos.
It's a far cry from the story Henry VII hoped to tell.
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S1 E6: The Caledonian Scheme
Perkin finds a patron. And king Henry loses his cool. In late 1495, Perkin Warbeck, the Flemish fraudster claiming to be one of the lost princes in the tower, talks King James IV of Scotland into treason. For Henry VII, who’s reeling from t
S1 E5: Traders and Traitors
*THIS IS HISTORY — THE TUDORS* *Episode 5: Traders and Traitors* An emperor loses a leg. England gets a headache. In 1493, surgeons saw off the gangrenous leg of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. It is a brutal, miraculous operation. The em
S1 E4: The Walking Dead
Did one of the Princes in the tower survive!? The Lambert Simnel affair might be over, but Henry VII has another pretender on his hands — a pesky Flemish fella called Perkin Warbeck. His agenda: claiming to be Prince Richard, the lost son o
S1 E3: The Coin Toss
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S1 E2: The Pretender
England gets a counterfeit king… well, almost. Determined to destroy Henry VII, the implacable Margaret of Burgundy backs an audacious Yorkist conspiracy. Its secret weapon is Lambert Simnel, an organ-maker’s son remodelled as a royal heir,
S1 E1: The Red Rose and The White
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S10 E12 | To Bosworth
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S10 E9 | Kidnap
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S10 E8 | No Mercy
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S10 E7 | The Tribute Act
In 1475, nobody wants a Henry V impersonator, but Edward IV goes ahead and does his best impression anyway. Edward, buoyant from vanquishing his enemies at home, now wants to re-unite the kingdom against its longtime enemy: France. He wants
S10 E6 | The Prophecy
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S10 E3 | LOVEBOMBING
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S10 E2 | Rise of the Woodvilles
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