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Certainly the Treshams’ – father and son – met a bit of tough going, but could any name be more prone to execution, death in battle (or misadventure) than the earls of Northumberland, the Percys (and not just the earls, their family in general! I’m looking past the WoTR to include the Percys’ who were caught up in the Pilgrimage of Grace – but I suppose H8 considered that uprising more political than religious? Still, a very unlucky name!)

And I agree, McGoohan, I think, stole the movie Braveheart (I can’t talk about the historical errors, they make me queasy) but he played Edward1 as if the film was about him, that’s chutzpah!

In respect to linkages, which I also find fascinating, consider this – I don’t know but I would have to think a king considers the date of their actual coronation to be significant, the public nature of the event, the anointing, the location, the crown and regalia, etc, and for Richard that date was 6 July 1483. Move ahead 52 years and the writer/ authority /source cited for far too many of what I would describe as intentional misstatements about Richard (ok, lies) was executed on 6 July 1535 by Henry VIII, a man named Thomas More. Move ahead 18 years from More’s execution and exactly 70 years after Richard’s coronation and Edward VI died, terminating the male Tudor line on 6 July 1553. I like to think that link is ‘karma.’

Every so often friends ask what I think I am accomplishing with all my books and ‘research’ on the WoTR and Richard specifically I’ve developed a quick response because most people know the Tudor material (thank you BBC et al), it’s easier to just say Bosworth was ONE day and I’m done with Tudor apologists having their way for 500+ years, it’s Richard’s turn now and I am part of the corrective! If they want to rad something I suggest Matt Lewis, to start!

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