>>18614574
Being good at managing a state's finances is as much if not more important to being a great king as being good at leading armies in battle. Same goes for using trickery, deception and treachery. These things are all essential parts of war and politics. You either git gud at them, or you lose.

>>18614574
>all he did was keep the realm stable
This is generally considered a good thing.

>>18614574
If he can be faulted for anything, its for Henry VIII turning out the way he did.

>>18614640
Henry VIII was supposed to be the spare. Blame Arthur for not putting a baby in Katherine of Aragon.

>>18614574
>He won via treachery.
Richard usurped and murdered his own nephews. The man who split his head open was an instrument of Apollo Kourotrophos.

>>18614574
>All he did was tax and keep the realm stable
Oh, yeah, he should’ve been a retard that murdered his nephews and threw himself into his own death. And Henry VII didn’t do anything treacherous. Stanley was the one who switched up, and it’s Richard III’s fault for not managing his subjects better to avoid that. Doesn’t matter though because the humpbacked dumbass got beaten to a bloody pulp. Henry VII saved England and put it back on equal footing with the rest of Europe. And more importantly than winning Bosworth, he put a quick stop to other Plantagenet retards from restarting the civil war.
In this household, Henry VII is a hero. End of story.

>>18614574
IMAGINE being such a fuck up that the entire realm unites around a WELSH king

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>>18614700
>Stanley was the one who switched up
I guess treason is a genetic trait...

>>18614689
The nephews were, by act of parliament considered illegitimate. Richard was therefore heir to the throne, unlike Henry whose family were banned from the throne.

>>18615275
>No, see, actually, PARLIAMENT said it's ok!
>Please ignore my private army of goons occupying London and making sure they do what I say