re: #74 William Barnett-Lewis

Which of course lead to the War of the Roses which is really important to Americans because it ended with the Tudors and very different kind of English monarchy.

Different? They finally reunited the two sides of the Plantagenets (York and Lancaster) and stopped 30 odd years of Civil War under the “Winter King” Henry 7th (who was boringly competent for the most part until his later years when financial issues cropped up) .

Otherwise, England remained a not so great place to be a peasant.