How a Total Nobody Convinced England He Was Meant to Be King | Nathen Amin at TudorCon

About this episode

It’s the Wednesday after TudorCon and I’m finally coming up for air! I’m so excited to share Nathen Amin’s keynote with you. This was Nathen’s first ever talk in America, and it only took us six years to get him here. Nathen walks us through how Henry VII, the great-great-great-grandson of a king (through a female line with a whiff of illegitimacy, no less), convinced an entire country he was supposed to be on the throne. And the man put his message on EVERYTHING. Red dragons and Welsh prophecy, the Tudor rose, a fertility-themed bed of state (yes, really), naming his son Arthur, gold coins as propaganda you carry around in your pocket. He even had an astrology book made where the constellation Draco gets redrawn as a Welsh dragon in Tudor green and white. I cannot get enough of this guy. Stick around for the Q&A, where Nathen takes on the whole “Henry dated his reign to the day before Bosworth” debate, talks about Elizabeth of York as a full partner in the Tudor project, makes the case that Henry VII was actually a Yorkist king in a lot of ways, and explains why Henry definitely had the rizz. Also, I picked Nathen up at Dulles, and on the drive down to Richmond we both decided