Buckingham's rebellion was a failed but significant uprising, or collection of uprisings, of October 1483 in England and parts of Wales against King Richard III of England.
Buckingham finds the River Severn swollen after heavy rain, blocking his way to join the other conspirators.
Lady Margaret Beaufort was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late 15th century, and mother of Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch. She was also a second cousin of Henry VI, Edwa
Monumental brass of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, the husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort, in St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire
Pembroke Castle in 2007, the Norman castle where Margaret gave birth to Henry Tudor in 1457
19th-century portrait, perhaps intended as Lady Margaret Beaufort, National Portrait Gallery, London
Statue of Margaret Beaufort in the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, which she founded