Tudor Summer Progress- Day 4
by Mike Glaeser
So much for Boswoth…I effectively audibled my audible. The end result is that I ended up on a train to Cambridge, situated one-hour north on the rails. In this large college town (though nothing like a US college town) are two schools with heavy ties to the Tudors. King’s is up first and rightly so for an entire half of its structure is a monument to the Tudor dynasty.
Henry VI placed the first stone for a new chapel and college in the spring of 1441. History will recognize the last Lancastrian King as more of a benefactor than a leader; for within his reign, he managed to lose almost all the holdings in France as well as the support of his nobles.
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