User:Insidivs Fvngvs

We should always bear in mind, when reading SHAKESPEARE's play's that he is mentioning historical figures but is not being true to history. Reichsmarschal GOERING said it so well when answering his indictment at the Nuremberg Trials that the winners will always be the judges and the vanquished the accused.

SHAKESPEARE can best be described, in my opinion, as a TUDOR boot licker.

Richard,Duke of GLOUCESTER, later King Richard III { 1483-85 }, was a capable and loyal administrator and soldier for his brother King Edward IV { 1461 - 83 } and no hunchback tyrant. He and his brother, George, Duke of CLARENCE, married sisters, Ann and Isobel, daughters of their cousin Richard NEVILLE, Earl of WARWICK and Richard and Ann deeply loved each other, unlike as depicted in the play where she despises him. Richard was distraught when Ann died of Consumption, the same disease that also killed Isobel.

Richard's and Ann's son, Edward, pre-deceased them, thus leaving Richard with no direct heir.

The main point of my writing is to correct the error that Elizabeth of YORK, daughter of Edward IV, was Queen Consort to Richard. She was not. It was suggested to Richard that he marry his niece so as to take her out of the reach of Henry TUDOR, { the future Henry VII } who had sworn to marry her so as to back his pretensions to the crown. Richard did no entertain the idea and she did eventually become Henry's Queen.

Roger DESHON, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia