It’s been easier to feel sorry for almost any character besides Queen Margaret over the course of The Requiem of the Rose King. She’s spent most of the show as a scenery-chewing villain, standing in opposition to her peaceful husband Henry and to the Yorks in equal measure. That means that’s it’s easy to forget that she didn’t have many choices in her own life, nor is she likely to have been living a life she wanted; we’ve heard Anne Neville make similar lamentations, but none from Margaret – until now.
In history, the Battle of Tewkesbury is the final, definitive battle between Henry VI’s and Edward IV’s forces, largely because it results in the death of Prince Edward, Henry’s only blood heir. We don’t know precisely how Prince Edward died, but apocrypha says that he was killed by the Duke of Clarence after the battle, which is how the show chooses to do it – George cuts…
