There is no doubt that Old Man Martin portrayed Cersei, a reference to the Queen of the Red Rose of Lancaster during the War of the Roses in England - Margaret of Anjou, who was the wife of Henry VI and the prototype of Cersei.

Looking at the prefix of her name, you can see that the Red Queen is not English, she is the niece of Queen Charles VII, King of France.

When Margaret married to England, it was at the end of the last stage of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, although there were still large areas of territory in France occupied by the British army, but since the miracle of Joan of Arc, it gradually turned defeat into victory, and the war against Britain led by Charles VII began to advance;

Britain, however, was in financial and military trouble, and the war was unsustainable.

Margaret's marriage to King Henry VI was the result of the British seeking a compromise armistice, and the French did not have the ability to fully recover the lost land at that time, and also hoped to have a chance to recuperate.

Henry VI did not want to fight, but the "hawkish" nobles were unwilling to compromise, and they won a reputation among the people with their "tough attitude", but fighting a war required a lot of money, and the king had to pay for it, and the royal family had long been in debt due to the war.

So the king quietly sent people to negotiate peace with France, agreeing to cede a few territories to France (the French side regarded them as returning), and the British and French royal families entered into a marriage relationship and signed an armistice.

Edward III, the king of the Plantagenet dynasty of England, once appealed to the French throne as his mother's French princess, provoking a tragic Anglo-French war.

Because of the lessons of the past, although Charles VII had a daughter, he chose the queen's niece to be married to Henry VI to prevent the British king from thinking about the French throne under the pretext of maternal blood.

The girl chosen by Charles VII was Marguerite of Anjou, whose father Reina had a large number of titles:

The "Count of Anjou", the "Duke of Lorraine", and the titular "King of Naples" were in fact mostly in vain, because large areas of his "territory" were occupied by the British, and he was actually a poor nobleman.

So much so that when the British came to talk about the marriage, Reina said:

"I am happy to marry my daughter to the King of England, but I declare that I cannot afford to pay the dowry."

Charles VII sent a portrait of Margaret to Henry VI for his sighting, and the King of England fell in love with her at first sight, and privately praised "a very beautiful and intelligent woman", decided to go against the custom and not even ask for a dowry, and made a secret treaty to cede the land.

In fact, Henry VI was also the nephew of Charles VII, and he came to earth because of the outstanding military exploits of his father Henry V.

Henry V provoked the Second Anglo-French War in 1415, restoring the glory of Edward III, the Lordship of the House of Lancaster.

The British army, with its mighty longbow and ingenious tactics, often won more with less, and the French knights lost their armor and fell large territories.

Henry V captured Charles VI of France, lived in the royal palace in Paris, and forced Charles VI to sign a humiliating treaty, agreeing that Henry and his sons would succeed him as King of France after Charles' death.

Then Henry V married back Charles VI's young daughter, Princess Catherine, as a victor, and the whole of England rejoiced in his military exploits.

However, God deliberately tricked Henry V to be 18 years younger than Charles VI, and there was no suspense about wearing the French crown after the death of the French king, but he died young at the age of 36, and Charles VI died more than a month later than him.

Fortunately, Henry V left behind a posthumous son, the infant king Henry VI, who was born to wear the double crown of England and France.

Unlike his father's marriage, Henry V married back to the French princess as a victor, but Henry VI ceded the land and sued for peace after defeat, giving up the dowry and only welcoming back a French lord.

It was inevitable that the marriage would be disgusted by the nobles and commoners, and the seeds of tragedy were planted at the beginning.

In order to ask the king to repent of his marriage, the parliament actually agreed to pay 5,000 pounds as compensation, but the king was unmoved.

When the queen married, because her husband was short of money, she first sold the silverware she had to pay the sailor's salary.

After coming to the UK, he lived a frugal life, handled the family affairs in an orderly manner, and tried his best to play the role of "pillow assistant".

Henry VI's generosity and cowardice, coupled with his love for his wife, provided the opportunity for the queen, who suffered from increasingly serious "strict wifery".

If in times of peace, the king and his wife may live happily ever after.

The French king must regain all the lost land in order to complete the great cause of restoration, and the British king must maintain the territory he occupies, and it is only a matter of time before the two sides resume the war.

But Britain was no longer able to compete with France and was doomed to defeat.

The queen's status as a French lord made her advocate friendship with France, and every time the war was lost, the main war party added a little resentment to her, and they would pour their anger on the queen's favored ministers, which was an irreconcilable contradiction.

In addition to the Duke of Suffolk, the Beaufort family (from Edward III's third son, the first Duke of Lancaster and his third wife, Catherine Swinford), the king's half-blood uncle, formed the "court party", or "post-party", around the queen.

The queen has a strong personality and will repay her eyes, and she will "endure" when she is forced to do so, but her forbearance is all for revenge and accumulation of strength.

In the first partisanship, the court party was victorious, and Humphrey, the king's own uncle, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, was forced to die.

After the French king started the full-scale war of restoration, the British army was defeated again and again, and party strife and turmoil continued to intensify.

Parliament forced the king to banish the Duke of Suffolk, the queen's favorite, and Suffolk was killed in exile.

In the summer of 1450, the second large-scale plebeian uprising of the Middle Ages, the Jack Cayde Revolt, caused the king and his wife to flee London for refuge.

During the riots, there was a rare act of humiliation, with two peasants posting leaflets saying "The king is a fool and should choose another king".

The fall of the Plantagenet monarchy is a repetition of the fact that Henry VI's grandfather, Henry IV (son of the 1st Duke of Lancaster), usurped the throne of Richard II of Plantagenet (grandson of Edward III).

This time will be different from the rapid change of the throne, which culminated in the longest civil war in British history, the War of the Roses.

The queen's greatest hatred was the first nobleman in England, the third Duke of York (his grandfather and the first Duke of Lancaster were both sons of Edward III).

When the queen first married, the duke was also the commander of the British occupation of France, and once greeted her in Paris and escorted her to the port to the west by boat.

At that time, they got along very well, and they could not imagine that they would become mortal enemies in the future.

The Duke of York had been depressed for several years, having made military achievements in France, and he considered himself a talented assistant to the army, hoping to have the opportunity to use his skills to correct the evils of the times.

But the result was that the tens of thousands of pounds of military expenses he had advanced had not been repaid by the imperial court for a long time, and he was repeatedly squeezed out by the palace party.

By descent and statute, the House of York had a higher priority over the House of Lancaster in succession to the Plantagenet throne.

After the death of the king's own uncle, Humphrey, if the king dies without an heir, the current Duke of York has the highest priority to inherit the throne.

The riots had nothing to do with the Duke of York, but he took advantage of the internal and external turmoil to gather troops and suddenly rush to London to "admonish the army", demanding the implementation of government reforms, and calling for a bill in Parliament for the king to canonize him as the heir in the case of childless death.

The queen was married to England for several years, but did not give birth to a boy and a girl, and often became the pretext of political opponents attacking her.

One can imagine how frightened the powerful queen was, convinced that the Duke of York not only provoked unrest, but also harbored the intention of usurping the throne, and hate him from then on.

Although the Duke of York was the most powerful first nobleman, and because he led troops in France, he was popular with the middle and lower classes of society for criticizing maladministration among the people, but he had two congenital shortcomings to challenge the palace party.

The duke has a lonely and arrogant personality, is rigid and conservative, and has few enemies among the great nobles, but even fewer friends.

Even if the neutral nobles did not like the court party, it was difficult for them to favor the cold York, so he was repeatedly ostracized for several years, but no great nobles ever spoke for him in the Imperial Council and the House of Lords.

In this round of confrontation, due to the lack of support from the great nobles, the Duke of York returned with a feather.

During the parliamentary period, the two major groups of the York Party and the Lancaster Party had begun to take shape, with the former being supported mainly by knights, gentry, and merchants, and the latter being mostly supported by nobles, middle, and small aristocrats.

Overall, the south is skewed towards York and the north is skewed towards Lancaster.

In the last major battle of the Hundred Years' War, the Battle of Castillon, the last large British territory in France, Gascony, was lost, and the famous general Talbot, Earl of Schulsebury, was killed in battle, and the whole army was destroyed.

Unable to withstand the blow, Henry VI went insane and had no biggest backer, so the queen gave in for the time being.

Another reason for the queen's retreat was to offend the Earl of Warwick, who came from Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, one of the two great families in the North, and had a deep family network and deep pockets.

Warwick's estate spans 18 counties, with 12 magnificent castles and hundreds of estates.

The average duke earns about £3,000 a year (the Duke of York has £6,000), and Warwick earns £3,900 a year, and is known as the first earl of England.

Warwick had an estate dispute with the Duke of Somerset, the queen's favorite, and the queen naturally favored her confidants, although Warwick was not involved in this lawsuit, but it showed that the queen lacked political acumen during a sensitive period.

Warwick had been neutral in the battle between the Duke and Queen of York, and has since sided with the House of York.

The Duke of York was excluded and humiliated for many years, and finally became the "Lord Protector".

In order to alleviate the contradictions, he only used his own people in a few important positions, and did not engage in personnel purges.

However, the good times of the York party did not last long, the queen was pregnant before the king went crazy, and gave birth to a son under the burden of humiliation, and Henry VI suddenly returned to normal soon after the birth of his son, and the queen immediately relieved the Duke of York from the post of protector with the help of the king's authority.

If only the benevolent and generous Henry VI and the rigid and conservative Duke of York could have been reconciled.

But there is a queen who is competitive and can control her husband, and she always puts a fire when the conflict is about to be resolved.

And because of the unique character of the king and the duke, this fire is always not burning, and when there are more Earls of Warwick, who often pour oil on it, it is inevitable that it will ignite.

Warwick's personality is the opposite of that of the Duke of York, he is bold, witty, and agile, and good at using "rumor offensives" to stir up public opinion.

He spread rumors that the queen's son was born to the Duke of Somerset (Cersei's son was actually born to his younger brother), otherwise there is no way to explain why she suddenly gave birth to a son after 9 years of marriage.

The queen became a mother, and her originally strong character was aroused by motherhood to fanatical mode, sparing no effort to fight for the defense of her son's inheritance, willing to meet any challenge for this, and not hesitating to provoke war.

Warwick and the queen poured fuel on the fire of conflict, and finally pushed the country into a civil war, and almost all the British aristocracy was involved in this 30-year war. The king was a coward, and the queen became the de facto leader of the Lancastrian camp, and she was the chief planner of 17 major battles, 15 of which were related to the queen, and she personally participated in several of them.

In 1455, the first battle of the Wars of the Roses began, the First Battle of St. Albans, and Henry VI was captured by the Yorkist army.

In the second Battle of St. Albans, the queen gathered an army to defeat the York army and rescued Henry VI, and the family was separated for more than half a year and reunited.

The queen taught her son hatred from an early age, hoping that he would become hard-hearted in his sword career, and in the victorious Lancaster camp, she instructed her eight-year-old son to canonize meritorious service as a knight, and ordered him to oversee two knights entrusted by the York army to protect Henry VI.

Although the king had promised never to kill his two bodyguards, he only dared to express his anger, but did not dare to disobey his wife's wishes.

In 1460, the Duke of York was killed, and his eldest son, Edward, Earl of March, succeeded him as head of the family and commander of the York army.

The personality of the Count of March was very different from that of his father, tall and mighty, with a heroic style, and he fought alone at the age of 19.

At the beginning of 1460, the Yorkist army only had the advantage in the south, and unlike his father, who was only satisfied with the "Qing monarch's side", he directly claimed the throne in London (Edward IV), carried out a personnel purge, and the two kings of Lancaster and York appeared in England side by side.

Not to be outdone, the King of York marched north to the Decisive Battle of the Rose in the largest bloody battle of the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Taunton, where the snow and rivers were dyed red.

In this battle, Lancaster's vitality was greatly damaged, and the overall situation of York was decided, and the queen took the king into exile in Scotland.

But she did not accept her fate, and since then she has traveled to the palaces of princes and nobles in Scotland and Western Europe, raising funds for war, obtaining diplomatic support, and constantly infiltrating the north to launch uprisings.