She was pregnant at 12, widowed by the Wars of the Roses and almost died at the hands of Richard III. But nothing could prevent Margaret Beaufort from engineering the rise of her son
The Wars of the Roses were the civil wars fought between the Yorkist and Lancastrian dynasties in the 15th century. Explore the conflict in full – from its root causes and who's who, through to the realities of civil war in the Middle Ages and 12 unbelievable incidents that occurred during the wars