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I just couldn‘t bring myself to finish this book. This isn‘t even real history. She‘s clearly confused fact and fiction. She didn‘t do her research on this. She‘s claiming things written half a century after Richard‘s death are contemporary to Richard killing his nephews. She can‘t seem to commit to his nephews being alive or dead at any one time.
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There is literally no more evidence for her own theories than this one. This entire book is conjecture, and it‘s getting tiring.
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He speaks with authority, so it‘s reasonable to say he‘s trustworthy. WHAT?! That is not how it works. He was a man of caution, so we can trust him. REALLY? We could describe Henry VI was “cautious” but I wouldn‘t trust him with my pet rock. Does this woman know how logic works? She was a history teacher? I‘m terrified of what she taught her students.
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Can I get some proof of this? I mean logical proof. I don‘t think Alison Weir has ever been catholic. Being alive is a reason for guilt, along with eating too much, wanting to have sex with your spouse, thinking you look good in a particular color… I could go on. There is literally NO PROOF for any of this.
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Why would it be plausible that he would write down his orders to kill his nephews? That makes exactly ZERO sense. This book is getting less and less plausible.
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So pretty much everyone (but the Wydvilles of course) saw that it was better for EdV to be with Richard (and also his brother Richard)…but Uncle Richard is the bad guy? To the Wydvilles, obviously. This might be one of the greatest smear campaigns in history.
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I get that you‘d go through the motions at this stage if you had ideas of promotion and wait to kill your nephew when there were fewer witnesses, but I‘m supposed to believe that NO ONE picked up on anything? The whole bloody country was full of idiots? The only people who say Richard had plans are the bloody Wydvilles (and now my phone knows how to spell that… great).
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The Wydvilles are the real villains here. How are you not going to tell somebody their brother died? Oh yeah, because you‘re being shady. There is record that EdIV wanted Richard to oversee/advise EdV until he was older. Sadly, the documents no longer remain, but mention of them does. I‘m seeing a lot of shady behaviour here, but none of it is Richard‘s.
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So no one, at the time, found anything odd about Richard‘s behaviour. So much of this story is total propaganda being passed off as history.
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It‘s coming across to me that the real power hungry persons in this situation are the Wydvilles, not Richard. Richard is the royal. His family (immediate and extended) are the ones with the real power. It doesn‘t seem to me that Richard would have had to take Edward and Richard from their mother had the Wydvilles not being power grabbing.
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