Finding Richard III…

You may have seen the original TV cast of this, but here’s more detail. It does seem to be him…

Richard III burial

There’s a great deal strange about his story. He was much maligned in the rumor mills of the day…and accused of the murder of the two princes in the Tower.

The deed is laid at the feet of an otherwise distinguished gentleman who loyally served the king…one Sir Robert Tyrell, who was the boy’s jailer, who, accused of the murder, staunchly refused to disclose where the princes were buried, and who was eventually executed for the crime. His family maintained, later, that the princes were not dead, and that Tyrell had actually rescued them and gotten them to a place of safety, and that he died accepting the blame for a non-crime, because of his loyalty to the king.

Richard III was blamed as the one who gave the orders. But there was a complete tangle of politics surrounding that and other matters during his reign.