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i mean i know that war between an uncle and his ten year old nephew is nothing to these girlies who would and did sell their own brothers for the crown but can that thing really have been that important… it’s your BROTHER… what’s the POINT… so many people dead bc of one fucked up family, i love the plantagenets

i mean one must understand that by marrying catherine of valois, henry v has made the entire french nobility his family and now you have burgundy revolting against henry vi to join with the dauphin charles but charles is his cousin by marriage! bc he’s married to charles’ sister! and henry is his nephew by marriage! bc henry’s mother is his wife’s sister! henry is LITERALLY charles’ nephew!!! war is crazy

bill just doing whatever the fuck he wants with those timelines

the way bill has richard swear “humble obedience and service till the point of death” to henry upon the king reinstating his assets and his dukedom… an oath that will haunt us later! 😑🙏

also WHAT is somersets problem with york…

you ever call your uncle the “bastard of your grandfather” in front of your nephew the king and all your other brothers, cousins and uncles… and it’s the court of england

“enter king henry” <- he’s four… also not yet king. edmund died in 1425 but henry was crowned in late 1429 when he was eight… lets put this parliament meeting in 1430, then, even though wikipedia says he was only granted his inheritance in 1432

ok listen but are you guys lancaster or york truthers…………

you gotta enjoy the way there have been three edmund mortimers in three generations and william conflates them all into one and the same edmund… the only trouble is that by the time the youngest of them dies, richard would have been 14 😭 meanwhile the somerset conflation would have been 19-21 yo in 1425… teenagers beefing over court business!!! history plays are so difficult

the thing is too that the scene in temple garden isn’t even about the throne yet but rather about lancastrian earls not wanting to see young richard be reinstated in full as duke of york and be part of court bc his father was executed for treason when richard was FOUR… like you people are all cousins !!! come on !!!

the fact that the whole red rose/white rose business came about bc of young william here is completely insane to me, anyway… to close the circle like this, to be the reason it is called “war of the roses” <- ROMANCE! fitting for a family drama!… the fact that that iconic piece by payne is from 1910 like wdym!!!