Episode 4

S1 E4: The Wars of the Roses ended in August 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at the battle of Bosworth, but Henry VII would never have become king and founded the Tudor dynasty without his mother, Margaret Beaufort. From the birth of Henry in 1457 Dan Jones reveals how, with remarkable resourcefulness and political guile, his 13-year-old widowed mother succeeded in keeping her only son safe as England descended into chaos.