How did Henry VII consolidate power?

For this we assume you've read the prelude to the Tudors.

You may remember that Richard III guy, whom archaeologists dug up in a car park in Leicester a few years ago?

Richard III was the king from 1483 until 1485.

By 1485, Henry Tudor, an 18-year-old Lancastrian, had been in exile in Brittany, in western France, for 12 years. He was the Lancastrians' last hope of obtaining power. He had led a rebellion in 1483 which was swiftly put down by Richard III's army, but public suspicion over his (probable) killing of the Princes in the Tower had grown. The time was ripe for Henry to come in and clinch power.

It's therefore clear that Henry's win at Bosworth owed as much to Richard's lack of support as to Henry's strengths.

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