His body was thrown on the back of a horse, carried to a church
near the field of battle and buried.
The battered crown which Richard had worn was picked up and placed
on Henry's head and the whole Lancastrian army shouted, "Long live
King Henry!"
Parliament now voted that Henry Tudor and his heirs should be
kings of England. Not long afterwards Henry married the heiress of
the house of York, and thus both the Red Roses and the White were
satisfied, as the king was a Lancastrian and the queen a Yorkist.
So the long and terrible Wars of the Roses came to an end.
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