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Those of my readers who have been keeping up with my TL, The Red Princess will see that I'm slowly edging closer to 1483, Edward IV's OTL death year. Now, with a POD in the 1470s, there are many things that are going to be different by the time we get to the mid-1480s. But at the same time, England is TTL, as OTL, bearing the scars of the Wars of the Roses.

Part of what I'm wondering is about the domestic front in England. If the Yorks stay in power, it's going to be a very different dynamic to the Tudors (Lancasters) ending up in power as OTL.

For instance, a case could be made for Edward IV's brother-in-law, the duke of Buckingham.
OTL he associated with Richard III, supposedly murdered the Princes in the Tower, then got beheaded for leading an uprising against Richard. His son, the next duke, was likewise beheaded for treason (of which More says he was probably guilty) for stirring the Tudor pot, and because he, like the Countess of Salisbury at a later point as well as several other peers, had Plantagenet blood and Henry VIII was slightly paranoid about this key aspect.

Another fact was the policy of the Tudors. Thanks to them, the 'new men' that were Empson, Dudley, Wolsey, Brandon, Cromwell, Rich etc, without gentle birth, came to premier positions in government, due to distrust of the nobility that were either previously pro-Yorkist or had Plantagenet blood.

How would this be altered if the York branch of the Plantagenets were to stay in power, and a reversal of OTL's marriage of the red rose and the white were to occur?
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