Posted on 02/12/2014 3:04:42 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Richard was a general at 17 or 18. But he came from a family of inbred military and literary geniuses. (Inbreeding is not always a negative.) Their only problem was that due to inbreeding, they could not reproduce themselves successfully. When Richard had children before his royal marriage to his cousin, his natural children - born of commoners - grew up whole and healthy.
Did you like this show? As a long-time Ricardian, I had trouble dealing with it. Did it help you understand King Richard or did it turn you off to him?
No pun intended, I'm sure.
Yeah, I didn’t like him failing to do his duty to protect the Prince of Wales.................and hogging the throne
As Protector, it was his job to secure the prince and bring him into London. Instead, his awful in-laws rushed the boy into sanctuary, cleared out the royal treasury, raised troops against Richard, took control of the navy (although Richard was head of the Admiralty) and generally acted in a highly suspicious manner.
No Protector had ever survived that position in the past. All had been murdered. Richard had a lot of think about in those weeks leading up to the coronation. I blame his brother, King Edward IV, for the foolish way he let his wife’s family take over the Kingdom in his final years.
Welcome aboard!
It’s amazing what chances to survive.
Titulus Regius: The Title of the King
by Tracy Bryce
http://home.cogeco.ca/~richardiii/Titulus%20Regius.htm
None dared call it treason. :’)
He looks like a wax dummy or a marionette.
Interesting read. How cool is it that the copy of the document stored in the tower escaped being destroyed?
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