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I have just watched the Finale of the hit TV show, ‘The Traitors’. It is an enthralling show, with many twists and turns and shocking moments. For thos who aren’t familiar with it, there are twenty contestants from various walks of life who compete in ingenius games to bank prize money, up to £100,000. Those who get to the final can share it between them. However, hidden among them are the Traotors (the others are the Faithful), and if even one Traitor is left at the end, they take the whole pot. Every night the Traitors get together and ‘murder’ one of the Faithful, but every day, at a round table meeting, the Faithful can banish a person they think is a Traitor. But how to know who they are?

It’s quite fascinating to watch them pounce on any tiny change in behaviour or perceived inconsistency to banish someone.

What was interesting this time was that one of the finalists (Charlotte, a Traitor) had decided that she would spend the whole show speaking in a fake Welsh accent because it was perceived to be ‘more trustworthy’ than other accents, supposedly.

No offence to Welsh people (I have Welsh ancestry myself), but Ricardians might have the opposite view, knowing as we do how the Welshman Rhys Ap Thomas betrayed Richard at Bosworth, after swearing loyalty to him , saying:

Tomb of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, St Peter’s Church, Carmarthen viewed in mirror suspended above it. Image: MumphingSquirrel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This basically meant that anyone in oppo;sition to the king in Wales would have to step over his body to proceed. He is believed to have alllowed Henry Tudor (another part-Welshman), to literally step over his body, thus tricking his way out of the oath, but, in my books, betraying his rightful king, Richard.

Charlotte got quite far with her treacherous ways. She threw two other traitors under the bus and set up the young man, Freddie, manipulating him to do what she wanted. She also lied, bare-faced, to the other finalists, trying to implicate her best friend in there to save her own skin, However, she didn’t win in the end – the Faithfuls did! I like to think the same about Tudor, Ap Thomas, the Stanleys, et al. They may have won then but Richard has won in the end.