The Wars of the Roses were a tumultuous period in English history, with family fighting family over the greatest prize in the kingdom--the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the crown? What made his Beaufort mother the great heiress of medieval England, and how exactly did an illegitimate line come to challenge the English monarchy? While the Houses of York and Lancaster...
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