When the King is Cray-Cray

[smokingboot]

After a good day's work, I surfeited myself on historical drama. Lots of Wolf Hall of course plus the latest Channel 5 documentary Princes in the Tower: A Damning Discovery. The damning discoveries (there are two) aren't so very damning. Turns out that Thomas More, whose problematic indictment of Richard III was taken as fact even though written decades after the event, did have a connection whereby he could have learned facts of the case; When in Belgium, his courier was the son of Giles Forrest, one of the two men purported to have killed the boys on the orders of James Tyrrell, himself supposedly commanded to the task by King Richard III. The other is that Tyrrell's sister-in-law, Margaret Capell, left in her will a chain of office that she claimed once belonged to the young Edward V.

All circumstantial but it does throw interesting light on the subject, as well as infuriating the Richard III Society and most of Leicester. The trouble with Richard is that the Tudors were all over the concept of propaganda. Also, he had quite a nice face, unlike that were-weasel Henry VII, who exemplifies perfectly Renaissance man's struggles with hairdressing. Richard's reconstructed face reminds me of Robert Sean Leonard who plays the nice doctor in House, so he can't possibly have done it.





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[mallorys_camera]

He does look like Robert Sean Leonard! 😀

Watching Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light is making me sad. The unraveling of Cromwell! 😥

[smokingboot]

It's brilliantly done and breaking my heart.