Paranoid Henry simply assumes that he wants her to have him surrender the crown. Anguished Declaration of Love: Lizzie begs Henry not to fight against the Yorkist army.Even if they managed to kill Henry on the battlefield, there would always be Tudor loyalists ever after trying to put Prince Arthur or Henry on the throne, and the Cycle of Revenge would carry on. And Then What?: Lizzie invokes this when she visits her brother Richard in the Tower after he tries to convince her that once he's restored to the throne, she and her sons will have nothing to fear, Lizzie shoots his argument down with several accurate points her husband will never willingly give up the crown, and even if he could be persuaded, his mother and his loyalists would never allow it.note Gregory wrote in the epilogue to the novel that she believed Warbeck's claim was genuine, but this view is rejected by most historians. His female relatives more or less believe that he is but there is still the niggling doubt that he is just a very convincing imposter, as Richard Pole says - Lizzie notes his resemblance to her father meanwhile, their grandmother Cecily thinks that his eyes may or may not be the right color. Ambiguous Situation: Though Richard of Shrewsbury is clearly shown escaping at the start, one can never be sure if the man who turns up in Burgundy is really him.The birth of their son Arthur further cements this. Altar Diplomacy: Henry and Elizabeth are married to unite the houses of Lancaster and York, thus ending the Wars of the Roses.In the series she is the one who orders their death. Adaptational Villainy: In the book Elizabeth is horrified by Perkin and Teddy's death.All this threatens the stability of their recently reforged kingdom.įollowed by The Spanish Princess, which chronicles the marriage(s) of Henry and Elizabeth's son, Henry VIII. The Yorkist faction continues to be a thorn in Henry's side and produces a rival claimant to the throne, Perkin Warbeck ( Patrick Gibson). Their respective mothers, Margaret Beufort ( Michelle Fairley) and Elizabeth Woodville ( Essie Davis) use their children to plot and scheme. which wouldn't be a problem if not for the fact that said houses aren't exactly on good terms with each other. In this series, the Wars of the Roses is effectively ended by the marriage of Henry VII ( Jacob Collins-Levy) and Elizabeth of York ( Jodie Comer), which unites the houses of York and Lancaster into The House of Tudor. It is based off of Philippa Gregory's 2013 novel of the same name, and is also a sequel to The BBC's 2013 miniseries The White Queen. A British-American historical fiction miniseries that aired on Starz for eight episodes in 2017.
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