Has anybody else been following the possible discovery of his bones? I've always thought he had a raw deal from old Shakespeare and read a few books about him years ago, arguing against the common held view of him.
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As I said before, and I'll say it again because I enjoyed it so much, it makes me want to go out and knack a Lancastrian.
It doesn't look like he'll return to York. Aparrantly he should be reintered close to where he was found.
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
As I said before, and I'll say it again because I enjoyed it so much, it makes me want to go out and knack a Lancastrian.
Not that familiar with the English "civil war" etc,but I'm sure I heard on Q.I.That both sides were rather mercenary and fought for whoever paid the most,nowt to do with roses etc.
It is now.
I thought this was about Natalie Cassiday
Originally Posted by kattymieoww:
Not that familiar with the English "civil war" etc,but I'm sure I heard on Q.I.That both sides were rather mercenary and fought for whoever paid the most,nowt to do with roses etc.
It was more of a feud between 2 families than a civil war tbh - we got that 200 years later when the king was openly executed rather than mad Henry VI (Team Lancaster) being done away with quietly by Edward IV (Team York) to ease his way into the crown. Royalty huh?
I've just finished reading Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time. A bit simplistic and nothing I'd not read before but it does contain all the arguments against Richard ordering his nephews' deaths. I also liked Reay Tannahill's The Seventh Son.
I tend to like the "baddies". I don't think Richard was - it's a shame he didn't survive thanks to Henry VII's stepdad changing sides at Bosworth. His one and only parliament suggested a decent monarch had arrived and it speaks volumes he was deeply mourned in the north where they knew him far better than elsewhere in England.