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Charlie Fenton
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‘Within a few months, he had gone from being the disinherited son of a traitor to being fifth in line to the throne of England. The speed with which blind Fortune could give, take away and regrant was dizzying and entirely unpredictable. This was the terrifying merry-go-round Richard was forced to ride as a child, and these experiences began to shape the man he would become and his view of the world around him’
— May 28, 2020 10:26AM
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Charlie Fenton
is on page 377 of 464
‘For Richard, having lost his son and his wife, the rumours that he had murdered Anne and planned to marry his own niece would have been incredibly hurtful. Unless he was monstrous enough to have been behind these things, they were cruel stories used to undermine his support, and his public denial demonstrates a degree of exasperation which suggests his control was slipping.’
— Jun 06, 2020 03:08PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 280 of 464
‘There are three versions of Richard that exist. There is the traditional Ruthless Richard, who plots for the throne perhaps from before his brother’s death and kills those who get in his way. A Romantic Richard is viewed as a victim of the events of 1483, dragged to his own doom by a sense of duty. The final persona is a Reactive Richard, lurching from one enforced decision to the next as crises swallow him.’
— Jun 05, 2020 04:15PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 215 of 464
‘Whatever may be guessed, the suggestion in Richard’s letter that George’s death had been contrary to his own wishes is clear. How he might have rationalised this and expected Edward to continue to indulge George’s treachery is hard to imagine. Richard and George seem to have been close, whatever disputes they took up against each other, and it seems reasonable that Richard would not be happy‘
— Jun 02, 2020 08:20PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 201 of 464
‘They were blessed with a son, named Edward for his uncle, perhaps another signal of the esteem in which Richard still held his brother. Born at Middleham Castle, he was known as Edward of Middleham, but even the year in which he was born is not recorded... when something as fundamental as his year of birth cannot be known, the hopes of finding the real boy in the fog of history are all but lost.’
— Jun 01, 2020 06:00PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 79 of 464
‘One of the greatest disappointments for Richard as the condition began to manifest itself would have been the loss of any hope that he would become a physical match for his oldest brother... For a small boy, it must have seemed that Edward was an heroic figure from Grecian myth and Richard could have harboured a legitimate hope of reaching the same striking stature and prowess as the king.‘
— May 28, 2020 02:13PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 37 of 464
‘Despite Shakespeare’s later dramatic reimagining of the battle, it was not the two-and-a-half year old Richard who killed the Duke of Somerset, however amusing the thought of a toddler swinging a mace at a grown man might be.’
— May 26, 2020 05:05PM
Charlie Fenton
is on page 23 of 464
‘Taking the villain we have long sneered at with a pinch of salt, we must take care not to try so hard to balance the scales as to offer an opposite and equally flat picture of a heroic Richard without fault. Much of what follows will necessarily be this writer’s interpretation of events and sources, which the reader may freely disagree with.’
— May 26, 2020 11:13AM
