What I find interesting is that so much of Henry's scheming was orchestrated by his mother. She was one who plotted to get him into the country in the first place, marrying Stanley for security, and I came across a curious theory not too long ago that blamed her for the murder of the Princes.
And I've always found the case for Henry having murdered the princes far more credible, mostly because it wouldn't have made any sense for Richard to have killed them, having already declared them illegitimate. His claim was tenuous enough and killing two children would not have helped him in any way.
The deformity is, of course, nonsense. If he'd been deformed, someone would have mentioned it during his lifetime, and nobody even brings it up until Rous in 1485. I saw a copy of the original Rous Roll and it was singing Richard's praises to the sky; then we have the new one featuring the hunchbacked Antichrist.
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Date: 2006-10-19 05:00 pm (UTC)And I've always found the case for Henry having murdered the princes far more credible, mostly because it wouldn't have made any sense for Richard to have killed them, having already declared them illegitimate. His claim was tenuous enough and killing two children would not have helped him in any way.
The deformity is, of course, nonsense. If he'd been deformed, someone would have mentioned it during his lifetime, and nobody even brings it up until Rous in 1485. I saw a copy of the original Rous Roll and it was singing Richard's praises to the sky; then we have the new one featuring the hunchbacked Antichrist.