Re: MR: Was Richard maligned?

[clevin@rci.ripco.com (Craig Levin)]

Poster: clevin@rci.ripco.com (Craig Levin)

> Poster: Razmus the Innocent <azrael@access.digex.net>
> 
> I had always assumed it was assumed that Richard III WASN'T really
> malformed as Shakespeare and Sir Thomas Moore would have folks
> believe.  Something about these two gentles working for Elizabeth and
> Henry of a competing lineage...  (I can never keep the Tutors,
> Lancasters, etc...

Poor Elizabeth of York was bullied into marrying Henry Tudor.

> Ummm... ditto about Richard killing off his two little nephews.  Never
> happened, nope, sorry.

It's hard to say if he had a hand in it. He had reasons to keep
them alive, and reasons to deep-six them. Suffice to say that the
guy who killed off the largest number of Yorkists was a Tudor.
==

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