Nathen Amin for The Son of Prophecy

From Penmynydd to Bosworth, this is the enthralling, action-packed story of the Tudors, but not as you know it. Join us for an evening with Nathen Amin to discuss his latest endeavour, Son of Prophecy.

As England's most celebrated royal dynasty, it's often overlooked that the Tudors have their origins in rural Wales, far from the urban centres of English power where they dared to become great. When Henry Tudor won the English crown by defeating Richard III in battle, he was a stranger to the people he now ruled, an 'unknown Welshman' in the words of his defeated foe. In his native Wales, however, Henry had long been championed as the Son of Prophecy, a foretold national messiah who would free his oppressed people from their lengthy misery. How had this remarkable situation come about? In this lucid and riveting account, Nathen Amin deftly explores how one redoubtable Welsh family thrived during lean years of political chaos, national instability, and intergenerational bloodshed to leave behind a complex legacy that changed the face of England and Wales forever. It is a passionately told tale of treachery, cunning, love, and heartbreak.

Painstakingly and meticulously researched, Amin's is a hugely important work that adds significantly to our understanding of England's most famous dynasty. Groundbreaking. - Nicola Tallis, author of Young Elizabeth

Nathen Amin is an author from Carmarthenshire, West Wales, who focuses on the fifteenth century and the reign of Henry VII. He is the author of Tudor Wales (2016), The House of Beaufort (2017), and Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck and Warwick (2021). His most recent work is The Son of Prophecy: The Origins of the Tudor Dynasty (2024). As of 2020, Nathen is a trustee and founding member of the Henry Tudor Trust, and in 2022 was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.