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Dan Snow video on some of our kings and queens, including Richard III….
Dan Snow may be a popular historian, always on TV, always praised and admired, but he seldom comes in for any thumbs-up from Ricardians. Well, like most of today’s TV-historians, he’s pro-Tudor. And that, folks, means putting their Rosa Klebb boots into Richard III. So when this link https://shorturl.at/nlCnD turned up and I saw it…
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Polls are always interesting, whether for getting it wrong at General Elections or coming up with figures that take everyone so by surprise that no one believes them. If you go to this link—https://tinyurl.com/5c64bp23—you’ll find that YouGov has set about composing, in order of popularity and familiarity, a league of English/British monarchs….and an accompanying article…
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My first acquaintance with the term the Ides of March was a school visit at the age of nine, when I was one of hundreds of schoolchildren watching it in an RAF hangar in West Germany. “Beware the Ides of March!” Well, I simply accepted the soundtrack and at that age certainly didn’t stop to…
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More praise for Philippa Langley’s discoveries concerning the Princes in the Tower….
“Princes”, Battle of Bosworth, Berkeley Castle, Coldridge, Dominic Smee, Edward II, Edward III, Elizabeth of York, Fieschi Letter, Henry IV, Henry VII, illegitimacy, John Ashdown-Hill, Kathryn Warner, Leicester dig, mtDNA evidence, Philippa Langley, Pontefract Castle, Richard II, Richard III, scoliosis, Sir William Stanley, stained glass, The Lost King, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486, usurpationPraise and admiration abound for Philippa Langley’s new discoveries and the book that tells all about the work she and her colleagues have been doing to trace what really happened to the boys in the Tower, the sons of Edward IV. Well, they were princes until 1483, then they were illegitimate boys, and then…
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Henry Bolingbroke, of course, was not a tyrant. Not at all. It’s just that before he became king, he executed an earl and four knights, no doubt by mistake. He was neither king, high constable nor marshal, and anyway was a banished man. So he had no lawful authority whatever. But he was merely carrying…
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It’s always good to learn of the indomitable efforts of Ricardian warriors around the world. Here’s an article from Canada about Clement Carelse and Christine Hurlbut, members of the King Richard III Society of Canada, who are carrying the White Boar standards on their side of the Atlantic. The above article about them and their…
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I must admit to having ‘all wrong’ about Bristol. For a long while I thought its cathedral was likely just an overgrown parish church and did not visit, preferring to explore the famous church of St Mary Redcliffe instead. How wrong I was. The cathedral was, in fact, a large Augustinian abbey, founded by Robert…
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You know what they say…as above so below? Well, not in the case of this Cambridgeshire cottage which is for sale at £425,000. While I love the “above” part…the “below” gives me the jitters! So my £425,000 is safe. “….Steps lead from the kitchen to a good-sized basement, where you’ll find a trap door leading…
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Well, if you follow this link—https://maxmymoney.org/the-difference-between-insane-and-genius-10-bad-guys-who-werent-actually-bad-but-misunderstood/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20Difference%20Between%20Insane%20And%20Genius%E2%80%9D%2010%20%E2%80%98Bad,Richard%20III%3A%20Victim%20of%20Propaganda%20…%20More%20items *— you have to scroll down to Number 8 to read this: “….Richard III, the much-maligned figure in Tudor history, may have been unfairly demonized, according to one historian. The Tudors’ portrayal of Richard III was influenced by their political agendas and physical deformity, making it difficult to discern…
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