Wars of the Roses

All of them.

Well, ironically, that's what nudges down into probably fourth place for me is that they were cribbing from real history, which is why, for example, I will give, not that it's bad, but I will give Game of Thrones shit because it's literally just ripping off the Wars of the Roses.

If you didn't know, it literally is.

Point for point.

Henry's family, the Lancasters, against Richard's family, the Yorks.

It was known as the Wars of the Roses.

The Woodvilles were firmly on the Lancastrian side, and Elizabeth's husband was killed in a battle.

Richard of York was also killed, and his son, the ambitious and charismatic Edward, seized the throne.

And we did it first.

And in fact, the Wars of the Roses was a civil war.

And then the

anarchy was a civil war before that.

And we did it first.

And in fact, the Wars of the Roses was a civil war.

And then the

anarchy was a civil war before that.

king of england and the ceremony seems to have been distinguished by the inordinate number of times that the archbishop had to strip the little boy to his undershirt and make him don other robes a collection of clerics had

to assist him off the platform staggering under the weight of that crown which was to prove too heavy for him when the murderous political uproar of the wars of the roses came to pass then they took him to paris to crown him king of france by order of his father who dying still considered himself the great conqueror of france according to miss christie biographer of henry

the sixth the english did everything possible on the occasion to hurt the feelings of the french but probably little henry quite enjoyed the service just like a modern schoolboy at any rate he got away for a time from his preceptor who had been busily employed as jailer to joan of arc treating her with quite unnecessary savagery then came the long process of making peace with france after the hundred years war it seems to have consisted of each side

making truces which were meant to be broken as soon as made then when he was twenty-three his subjects ordered their meek king to get him a wife and after a hunt with varying fortunes among all the princesses of western europe who seemed likely to suit he selected margaret of anjou an exceedingly pretty and lively girl with whose portrait he fell in love she was then sixteen and set off for

of some english brides who reaching melbourne have found the mosquitoes so attentive that they have come on to sydney a mere simulacrum

of the blooming fresh

beauty that had got on board the ship so hopefully at tilbury docks six years later when the wars of the roses were coming into full blast and england

was rent in twain by quarrels among the aristocratic families which were only to be settled by the rise of the heavy-handed tudors

I mean, he's almost like an Edward IV type character or maybe Henry VI, someone like that, like a few hundred years ago, but...

in came through a period of where a lot of history was happening at once like in the case of in england that i'm talking about it was the wars of the roses and in this case in japan it was the which is the warring states period like um obviously history happens at the exact same speed wherever you are whenever you are but you know what I'm talking about right a lot of stuff is happening at once and so often then those kind of periods become the focus of TV and film and books and all of these things and Date Masamune is no exception right

no yeah he lived well interestingly as well for a warlord from that time period he was born kind of later in the Sengoku period and he lived well into the Edo era A lot of the famous warlords from that time, like Oda Nobunaga, who we could do an episode on at some point, who you almost certainly know if you have any interest in Japanese history.

As a matter of fact, if you didn't know Oda Nobunaga, I would disqualify you from having an interest in Japanese history.

So people would raise armies.

There were sieges.

I mean, it's unbelievable how many battles have happened in Europe Japanese if you think it's hard to like get a handle on all the battles of the Hundred Years War or the Wars of the Roses in the UK or the American Civil War like Japan's warring states period really is

something else, right? Yeah, I mean he was born already over a hundred years into this warring states period and then he lived the first 50 or so years of his life also in various wars and Yeah, I didn't see real peace until well into the second half of his life.

We crowdfunded it, raised far more money than we thought we were going to.

And Thomas has previously worked here at Warwick Castle in the Wars of the Roses display that they do.

So he was able to reach out to a few people that he knew here and somehow they let us have what is Warwick Castle's first ever film premiere inside the state banqueting hall at Warwick Castle with a bar in the Great Hall next to it as well, as you and I well know.

I do vaguely remember the bar for the first hour or so and then it's a bit of a blur.