But how much do you know about this tumultuous period of English history?The Wars of the Roses were a series of bloody civil wars fought between which two rival Plantagenet families?In what century did the Wars of the Roses take place? Margaret Beaufort was the mother of which Tudor king?Which battle 'probably the largest and bloodiest ever fought on English soil', resulted in the defeat of the Lancastrian Henry VI by the Yorkist Edward IV?The last English King to die in battle was killed during the Wars of the Roses. WARS OF THE ROSES QUIZRoyal Bastards: The Rise of the Tudors, Sky HISTORY's new three-part TV docu-drama series transports us back to the Wars of the Roses, a tumultuous and violent time of usurped kings, intrigue and plots which brought medieval Britain to its knees. This is that period’s history told as never before, through the eyes of its most unexpected heroine, Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother to England’s first Tudor monarch. This is the real Game of Thrones, but unlike that fiction, the hero who emerges to save the nation is not a battle-hardened Jon Snow-type but a frightened teenage girl running for her life. The series presents the story of the Wars of the Roses and the origins of the Tudor dynasty through a unique lens – the women who shaped the course of English history. Royal Bastards: The Rise of the Tudors, a three-part TV docu-drama series premiering on Sky HISTORY, Sky Showcase and NOW, which transports us back to a tumultuous and violent time of usurped kings, intrigue and plots which brought medieval Britain to its knees.

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