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The Wars of the Roses were a succession of civil wars fought because of the line of secession. Both the houses of Lancaster and of York had viable claims to the throne. Each house alternated in the ascendancy, various families shifted alliances depending on who was on top. At one point, England had two crowned kings at the same time. Henry feared that if he died without a male heir, the same thing would happen again. Ironically, despite his efforts, it did. His son, Edward, was king only for a short time, but he disinherited his Catholic half-sister, Mary, in favor of his Protestant cousin, Jane Grey. When Young Edward died, Mary deposed Jane and carried out a vendetta against her Protestant subjects. Only when Mary Tudor died childless and her half-sister, Elizabeth, inherited the throne did the persecution end. Elizabeth brought peace and prosperity, dying unmarried and childless. The Tudor Dynasty lasted only three generations from Henry VIII's father to Henry VIII's children. The crown passed to the House of Stuart, Elizabeth's cousin, James, son of Elizabeth's enemy: Mary, Queen of Scots.

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