The life of Richard the III of England, and a defense of his so-called "crimes" as accused by Shakespeare and the Tudor/Lancasters. With footnotes and bibliography.

"For over 500 years the last Plantagenet King of England has been vilified as a usurper, a murderer, a monster but the tide is turning... Richard III lost the battle of Bosworth but" this writer "aims to win the war in rescuing his reputation."# In 1485, a " diluted Lancaster,"# King Henry VII, came to the throne, the fifth King in sixty-three years. His claim to the throne was his marriage to the daughter of a discredited marriage, …

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