Succession to the British throne branch of the royal house of Lancaster, the House of Beaufort, assumed the English crown as Henry VII, after defeating Richard III, who was killed at the battle of Bosworth when leading a charge against Henry's standard. Richard was the last king of the House of York, and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. Henry declared himself king retroactively from 21 August 1485, the day before his victory over Richard at Bosworth Field, and caused Richard's "Titulus Regius" to be repealed and expunged from the Rolls of Parliament. After Henry's coronation in London in October that year, his first parliament,
Who Shall Die suffer or not, and once one recognizes this, then they are truly free. For the masons, they prefer suffering while reconstructing the Belfry with little to no food, so they can impress the King of France next spring. For Jean Pierre, he ends Clarice's suffering and finally tells her that he loves her. For Catherine, she would rather kill both Louis and her, than have one of them living without the other, suffering. Although "Who Shall Die" is one Beauvoir’s more unheard of plays, she has received much attention for her feminist work and has been referred to as the