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Coming Upon the King: My Accidental Path Toward Becoming a Ricardian
“Eleanor”, “Princes”, Alaska, Anglo-Saxons, Anne Mowbray, Castillon, denialists, dental evidence, dishonesty, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Garden Tower, Henry VII, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Shrewsbury, Josephine Josepha Wilkinson, King Lear, Leicester dig, Magna Carta, mtDNA evidence, Nevilles, Richard III, Richard III Society, Shakespeare, Stuarts, Tanner and Wright, Weir, Westminster AbbeyI’ll be perfectly honest with you: I was never really that interested in Richard Plantagenet, later Richard III. In school I had avoided the Anglo-Saxons like the plague, and Richard, well, perhaps like a round of the flu. He wasn’t quite as intimidating, despite the double-murder allegation lodged, and I got away with not having…