Historian Nathen Amin returns to the Festival following his successful appearance in 2021 (The House of Beaufort).
As England’s most celebrated dynasty, it’s often overlooked that the Tudors have their origins in rural Wales, far from the centres of English power where they dared to become great.
When Henry Tudor won the crown by defeating Richard III, he was a stranger to those he now ruled, an ‘unknown Welshman’ in the words of his defeated foe. At home, however, Henry had long been championed as the Son of Prophecy, a foretold national messiah who would free his oppressed people from their misery.
Son of Prophecy deftly explores how one family thrived during lean years of political chaos and inter-generational bloodshed to leave behind a complex legacy that changed the face of England and Wales forever. The Tudors, before they became THE Tudors…
Wade Street Church
Lichfield
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