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Pleased to be part of this year's @ChildrenInRead initiative, authors raising money for @BBCCiN (#ChildreninNeed) by auctioning off signed/dedicated books.
You can bid on Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders below (or view other authors taking part) 🙏🏾
https://t.co/5Z9akfiOre
Henry VII, the merciful king? After victory at Stoke Field, Henry did not execute, imprison or even punish the nominal leader of the conspiracy, Lambert Simnel. Instead he gave him a job, first in the kitchens and then as a hawker. Not a bad outcome for the 'false boy king'.
A Red Dragon and a Crown on a background of Tudor livery colours of Green and White, taken from a manuscript (Arundel MS 66 ff. 33r-47r in @britishlibrary) created during around 1490 during the reign of Henry VII.