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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!
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