Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "I want to see my mother - The White Queen: Episode 5 Preview - BBC One" video.

No the Lancastrians won. Henry Tudor was a Lancastrian. He chose to marry Elizabeth of York to end the battles for the throne, but over the years both he and his son Henry VIII had all of the surviving male Yorkists with a genetic claim to the throne killed and some of the female Yorkists were also executed such as George Duke of Clarence's daughter Margaret Pole even though she was an old woman at the time.
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@malaksalemm It was the female side of his family, not the Tudor (male side) that gave Henry Tudor a claim to the throne. Henry VI's mother was Katherine or Catherine of Valois, not Isabella.
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@alexander9703 I shall check this out further. The history books all refer to Henry VII as being on the Lancastrian side. Do you mean supporters of Elizabeth of York rather than Elizabeth Woodville? Elizabeth Woodville was not a Yorkist by birth but only by marriage and in any case, as a woman she had no claim to the throne herself.
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@alexander9703 As I understand it, Henry VII's mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a descendant of John of Gaunt. Edward III named John of Gaunt his second heir after Richard II. Richard II had no children when he was deposed by Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV, Lancastrian line), Edward of York was named 3rd heir by Edward III. So it's understandable since Henry VII's line was from the second heir, that he would join the Lancastrians against the descendants of the 3rd named heir, a Yorkist. Henry VII's claim did come through a woman, his mother, and that may not have been acceptable at the time.
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@lakshmithasridhar3175 Some people assert that Edward IV was not the son of the Duke of York but was illegitimate. It's certainly complicated. No wonder there was a war between claimants.
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