Locals had long shared stories of Collyweston Palace. Excavations in England’s Midlands eventually revealed traces of the fabled estate. Thanks to Margaret Beaufort, pivotal in the Tudors’ rise, England’s most notorious dynasty might never have claimed the throne. She orchestrated her son, Henry VII’s ascension during the Wars of the Roses, ending the Plantagenet reign in 1485.
Two years after, Henry VII gifted his mother a manor in Northamptonshire, England. Collyweston Palace hosted a veritable “who’s who” of Tudor England, from Henry VIII to Katherine Howard to Elizabeth I, society embarked
