Ilkley Moor Murder Case (Was Re: "The Noughties"?)

[Carol]

Geoff:
> Well... no... rather that the House of Tudor was a result of the
Houses of York and Lancaster being linked through Elizabeth of York
marriage connection. Though I personally support the wearing of a red
rose, having been brought up until the age of 9 on the west side of
the Pennines.
>
Carol:
Except that Henry Tudor had no direct link to the Lancastrian line.
His French grandmother, Catherine of Valois, was married to a
Lancastrian king, Henry V, before she got involved with the Welshman
Owen Tudor. (The validity of the marriage has been questioned.) Their
sons, Owen, Edmund, and Jasper, were half-brothers of Henry VI on the
mother's side, so he actually had a better claim to the French throne
than the English. The last legitimate Lancastrian claimant, other than
the half-mad, twice-deposed Henry VI, was his son, Edward of
Lancaster, who died in battle at sixteen.

Carol, no fan of the House of Tudor, especially its founder