Now Richard’s bones “suggest….[he] was a control freak who had a friendly face”….!

Well, for idiotic claims, this one about takes the biscuit!

How on earth can the examination of Richard III’s centuries-old remains tell anyone he was a control freak? Or that he was friendly? Yes, a reconstruction from his skull has proved he was good-looking, but that’s not the same as “friendly”. Mind you, as medieval kings go, he probably was friendly (although perhaps not always laughing, as he is in the above illustration!) Certainly he had Henry VII knocked into the proverbial cocked hat, but as to the control freak bit….

Sorry, but this is going way too far, and smacks to me of the sort of stupid propoganda rubbish Tudor would have claimed about him…as would many a Tudorite historian as well. Harri Tudur and his creatures didn’t miss a trick, and the usurper would have given thanks on his bony knees to be able to say Richard was that kind of monster too.

I don’t know who, exactly, decided on this claim—scientists or press—but whoever it was, they were talking out of their freaky -rses!


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  1. Good Lord! The man-boobs! 😣 And why such a thick neck? The guy was skinny and ‘delicate’ in frame (but still strong) Seriously, the anti-Richie crowd is getting worse!

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  2. FWIW — Around the time a lot of the people at Leicester University were getting a lot of press for their work in identifying the bones as those of Richard III, one of the psych professors did a “profile”, where he said that Richard probably suffered from “uncertainty intolerance syndrome” … which meant he preferred to be in control of things. (This fit in with a discrepancy between Kendall and Ross on Richard as administrator that indicates Richard didn’t like delegating).

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    Glenis Brindley

    As you said, we don’t know who wrote the above article. All I will say is whoever did write it, didn’t do a very good job. The way it’s written and the grammar used are appalling.
    When something like this is written so badly, it doesn’t sit well with me that it’s correct, but I’ll leave you to make up your own mind on that score!

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