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struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII- It's worse than the Wars of the Roses," said Lucy.C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- If she could withstand Cromwell, the Wars of the Roses, and the French, surely you may overlook a bit of hammering.Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
- Thus, towards the end of the eighteenth century a change came about which, if I were rewriting history, I should describe more fully and think of greater importance than the Crusades or the Wars of the Roses.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- "One of my ancestors fought in the Wars of the Roses," she announced haughtily, without looking round, "and in those wars you were supposed to wear a red rose or a white rose to show whose side you were on, but he was very attached to a pink rose called Lady Lavinia, which we still grow at the Hall, actually, so he ended up fighting both sides at once.Terry Pratchett -- Nation
- The Wars of the Roses ....Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own