Bosworth: Richard III, Henry Tudor and the End of Plantagenet England

England, 1485. Richard III wears the Crown, but the dynasty he seized is fighting for survival.Two years after the disappearance of Edward IV's sons and the destruction of Buckingham's rebellion, Richard remains an anointed king with a functioning government, experienced commanders and the military resources of the Crown.Across the Channel, however, a rival is waiting.Henry Tudor possesses a distant hereditary claim, years of exile and a coalition united more by opposition to Richard than devotion to the Tudor name. His promise to marry Elizabeth of York offers something more powerful: a settlement capable of bringing former Lancastrians and disaffected Yorkists into the same cause.With French support, Henry crosses the Channel and lands in Wales. His small army begins a dangerous march across a kingdom whose loyalties remain uncertain. Towns open their gates, former Yorkists reconsider their allegiance and the powerful Stanley family refuses to reveal which side it will ultimately support.Richard gathers the royal army and marches to meet him.On 22 August 1485, the rival forces confront one another near Market Bosworth. The battle will be decided not only by numbers and courage, but by divided loyalties, delayed commitments and Richard's extraordinary final charge towards Henry himself.The king dies fighting.Yet Bosworth is not the end of the story. Henry must transform battlefield victory into legitimate monarchy, marry Elizabeth of York, establish a new dynasty and confront one final organised Yorkist invasion at Stoke Field in 1487.Bosworth tells the story of Richard III's final struggle, Henry Tudor's unlikely road to the Crown and the violent end of Plantagenet England.This is Book Ten and the concluding volume of The Last Plantagenets, a ten-volume narrative history of England from the Peasants' Revolt to the establishment of the Tudor monarchy.The manuscript itself deliberately carries the story through Stoke rather than pretending Bosworth ended Yorkist resistance immediately