The BBC's The Hollow Crown - War of the Roses showed King Henry VI's wedding to Margaret of Anjou. She quotes the Ryalle Bok of court protocol that records how once the king was in bed, he would send for the queen. Another witness described that when the king and queen lay together, his chamberlain lay ‘in the same chamber’. Sophie Okonedo plays Queen Margaret in the Hollow Crown which is set during the War of the Roses. is very odd.’Her book, Shadow King: The Life And Death Of Henry VI, says the young sovereign’s inability to sire an heir undermined his masculinity and authority.

Source: Daily Mail February 19, 2019 00:42 UTC