“Tudor” propaganda
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I happened to see a link to an article titled as above and thought it looked interesting. At first, I was appalled by the introduction, which included the following: ….His reputation has taken a number of beatings over the centuries due to a series of unfortunate incidents in which he played a central role. The…
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A very satisfying mini-biography of John Morton….!
“Tudor” propaganda, Battle of Bosworth, Buckingham’s Rebellion 1483, Cardinal John Morton, Edward of Lancaster, Edward of Westminster, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VI, Henry VII, Jane Shore, Princes in the Tower, Queen Anne Neville, Richard III, Sir Thomas More’s ‘The History of King Richard III’, William Lord HastingsIf you go to this link http://tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/JohnMorton.htm you’ll find a brief biography of Cardinal John Morton, he of despicable memory. It’s rather surprising in that it rips the dear fellow to shreds and is therefore a very agreeable read for all Ricardians. Morton is considered to be the source of most of the lies about…
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As I write my failure to find anything online about a particular event, apart from someone’s FB page, leads me to hesitate. But let’s assume it IS what’s happening…. It ‘s said that art galleries are suddenly declining to display the above portrait of Henry VIII, Jane Seymour and the boy Edward VI (who died…
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Three things I can say about Tewkesbury, which is only a few miles away from where I live, are that it is (a) historic, (b) beautiful and (c) full of ghosts. Well, I can vouch for the first two, but the third is something I have yet to experience. According to this article https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/23727059.ghostly-walk-across-tewkesburys-bloody-meadow/?fbclid=IwAR38XvM57xwfaunaAQL3XWN_GsCsleTg3FnXIM4mg2pV5_cyJP_lRdhqUCI the…
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Henry VI….our most unfortunate king….?
“Tudor” propaganda, Catherine de Valois, Charles VI, Edmund “Tudor”, Edward IV, evidence, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII, Jasper “Tudor”, Lady Margaret Beaufort, madness, Owen Tudor, Philippa Langley, Richard Duke of York, Richard III, Royal Marriage Secrets, Second Battle of St. Albans, Tewkesbury, Wars of the RosesWas Henry VI our most unfortunate king? Well, at only nine months he was certainly the youngest to come to the throne. And when he reached adulthood his mental state was frequently out of kilter. A little like his maternal grandfather, the French king Charles VI, known to posterity as Charles the Mad. Charles…
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The Queen of France’s necromancers….
“Tudor” propaganda, “Tudors”, disability, Duchy of Brittany, Edward III, France, Hundred Years War, jean de vignay, joan of penthevriere, joan the lame, John IV Duke of Brittany, Leicester dig, Mark Ormrod, melcombe, necromancy, philip vi, Richard III, Shakespeare, storms, Thomas More, treaty of malestroitSupporters of Richard III are always incensed that his reputation (courtesy of the Bard, the sainted Sir Thomas More and the House of Tudor) has always been damned because of his scoliosis. Well, the Bard and More embellished a curved back into much, much more. They turned him into a wicked hobgoblin! But in those…
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“…Josephine Tey, a beloved Scottish crime writer, is poised to join the esteemed ranks of women honored on the Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland map….” Well, what more need be said? Tey redeemed Richard III at a time when he was definitely regarded as the awful creature conjured by More, Shakespeare and the truly…
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All too often Kent, the “garden of England” is thought of as the county to come and go through, with not too much stopping on the way. But it’s a very beautiful county with a huge amount of history, and this article is about a week spent there simply exploring. It goes through the days…
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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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… but this one is by Ursula K. leGuin, better known as a science fiction writer, before her 2018 death: Richard Loyalty bound him. Not deft, not flexible. Stanley betrayed him. Why did he fight so hard to die so sorely hurt? Did he foresee the hump, the murders, and the theft, the withered hand,…