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archersangelthe rest of the title; The Story of England s Most Notorious Royal Family
from amazon;
this is a very interesting book that covers not only the major tudor figures (henry VIII, mary I, elizabeth I), but minor family members & touches on some of the other royals (henry VI, edward IV, some french kings) that were around during various times.
of course there is a part about richard III & the fate of edward V and his brother richard, the author doesn't come right out and say who might be responsible. although, i got the feeling she was hinting that friends/followers of richard III were responsible. she said that henry VII was only guilty of not investigating what happened to them. the problem was if he proved they were killed, most likely a cult of worship would have focused on them. like with henry VI & similarly if richard III had said they had died of sickness, or depression, or that friends/followers of the future henry VII killed them there would've been a a cult of worship then.
hidden in the author's notes was that the richard IIIdefense society paid for a forensic psychology study of richard III and they found that he supposedly had a strong sense of right and wrong and most likely had edward V and his brother richard hidden away for their own safety.
i do not believe it.
1. i can not imagine that kind of thing staying secret very long at the time.
2. their mother, elizabeth woodville, was told they were dead.
3. the skeletons of two boys about the ages the princes were when they died were discovered buried at the bottom of a staircase in the tower which was mentioned by someone who claimed they knew what happened to them.
from amazon;
The Tudor canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out the family's obscure Welsh origins, the ordinary man known as Owen Tudor who would fall (literally) into a Queen's lap and later her bed. It passes by the courage of Margaret Beaufort, the pregnant thirteen-year-old girl who would help found the Tudor dynasty, and the childhood and painful exile of her son, the future Henry VII. It ignores the fact that the Tudors were shaped by their past, those parts they wished to remember and those they wished to forget.
this is a very interesting book that covers not only the major tudor figures (henry VIII, mary I, elizabeth I), but minor family members & touches on some of the other royals (henry VI, edward IV, some french kings) that were around during various times.
of course there is a part about richard III & the fate of edward V and his brother richard, the author doesn't come right out and say who might be responsible. although, i got the feeling she was hinting that friends/followers of richard III were responsible. she said that henry VII was only guilty of not investigating what happened to them. the problem was if he proved they were killed, most likely a cult of worship would have focused on them. like with henry VI & similarly if richard III had said they had died of sickness, or depression, or that friends/followers of the future henry VII killed them there would've been a a cult of worship then.
hidden in the author's notes was that the richard III
i do not believe it.
1. i can not imagine that kind of thing staying secret very long at the time.
2. their mother, elizabeth woodville, was told they were dead.
3. the skeletons of two boys about the ages the princes were when they died were discovered buried at the bottom of a staircase in the tower which was mentioned by someone who claimed they knew what happened to them.
