DBWI: Henry Tudor defeats Richard III?

I read a couple of these DBWI threads, they looked fun so I figured I'll make one myself...

Anyway, the other day I was flipping channels when all the sudden I came across this documentary on the History Channel called 1485: The Failed Usurper. Considering I'm feeling pretty sad that football season ends tonight :( I decided to watch it. Basically it was about the life Henry Tudor this crazy Welshman who tried to conquer England in 1485 but was slaughtered by King Richard III and his army at the Battle of Bosworth field. You know the Shakespeare tragedy Henry Tudor that we were all forced to read in high school? It was the same guy. At the end of the documentary, the host Sir Thomas E. P. Brady CBE said that if Henry won at Bosworth Field things would be much different today. First of all, the Habsburgs would probably never control England as this happened by my namesake Emperor Charles V marrying Richard III's granddaughter Queen Joan of England. Can't you imagine what will happen with no Habsburgs in England? Things could get a bit crazy. First of all Henry and his poor Welsh family would establish a new dynasty of their own and this new Tudor Dynasty would've probably purged England into a new dark age! Just imagine this poor Welsh fool with a claim to the throne weaker than Perkin Warbeck starting a DYNASTY? How proposterous! Sir Brady goes on to say that this Henry Tudor would've married the former Edward IV's oldest daughter Elizabeth which would sort of "unite" the Yorkists and Lancastrians in this new Tudor Dynasty. What it really be though is a slap in the face to Richard III because his probably illegitimate brother's descendants would rule England! Finally Sir Brady says that if this Tudor guy became king of England, he would've become a football player and never get knighted! I know he's alluding to the Super Bowl tonight but come on! Imagine Sir Brady playing football? He might as well have two kids with two different women!
 
Ah yesPerkinWarbeck.Theguy who claimedtobeone ofthe missing sons of Edward IV (ithinkit was the younger son.Landed inCornwall in 1497,tried toraise a revolt which ended upbeing a fiascio worse thanLambert Simnal's 1487 rebellion(heclaimed tobeEdward. Richard ha tohave them both executed.
 
Ah yesPerkinWarbeck.Theguy who claimedtobeone ofthe missing sons of Edward IV (ithinkit was the younger son.Landed inCornwall in 1497,tried toraise a revolt which ended upbeing a fiascio worse thanLambert Simnal's 1487 rebellion(heclaimed tobeEdward. Richard ha tohave them both executed.

Yes. I remember learning about all this good stuff in AP Euro History last year. You also forgot the time Richard III imprisoned all of Edward IV's descendants because he was so paranoid he would lose his throne to one of them. Despite all of this however, I still think Richard III was a good king. Most historians today credit him with pulling England out of the Middle Ages and into the Reniassance. After all, that guy ended the War of the Roses for good, brought science and technology to England and funded the first English expedition to the New World in 1512. His son Richard IV even had a more prosperous reign. Richard III did chop off the heads of a lot of people but so did all the kings at the time.
 
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