Just last year I read a book by Josephine Tey called The Daughter of Time. It was a fascinating read, even to someone like me (barely literate in British history).
The historically accepted facts don’t hold up to common sense questioning.
The Daughter of Time was a great book and rather confirmed what I thought. When I was taught World History there was a portrait of Richard III in our text book. Even though my history teacher went on and on about the evil Richard I thought he looked more sad than evil.
But what really struck me was that Sir Thomas More’s History was never published during his lifetime and I wondered why? I believe that he knew what he had written was propaganda and false, and being an honorable man could not bring himself to have lies published in his name.
The entire Plantagenet Family history reads like a novel from the first one to Richard the last King of that name. Some were great and most not so great but always, always fascinating.