The Tudor royal dynasty began with King Henry VII acceding to the throne of England, Wales and Ireland in 1485, and ended with the childless death of Elizabeth I in 1603. They are famed for taking ...

The Tudor royal dynasty began with King Henry VII acceding to the throne of England, Wales and Ireland in 1485, and ended with the childless death of Elizabeth I in 1603. They are famed for taking ...

Henry VII presents himself as the unifier of the warring Lancaster and York dynasties – symbolised by his adoption of the red and white Tudor Rose. His reign brings 85 years of civil war to an end.

Historian John Davies looks at the impact of the Wars of the Roses on the lead-up to the accession of Henry VII and the beginning of the Tudor dynasty. Between the 1450s and the 1480s, the ...