Monarchy, with David Starkey, Series 2: War of the Roses to Cromwell (2005)

The Crown Imperial: Tudors and Stuarts (4/5)

1. The Crown Imperial: 1450s and The Wars of the Roses, the birth of the Tudors.This episode starts in the dark days of the War of the Roses and moves on to Henry Tudor, who becomes one of England's most hated monarchs. 1450s and The Wars of the Roses, the birth of the Tudors.

Dr David Starkey presents the second part of his complete history of the British monarchy, which he portrays as a crucial and sometimes violent dialogue between the people and the monarch, through which the very nature of our society was forged.