Review: wanted more but this book tries to answer questions about him in a fair way
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2013
The reason why I gave this book 3 stars is because I just wanted more..I watched the White Queen and before that read Phillipa Gregory's books on that period of time,,I got interested in Richard mainly because it was done in a unbiased way..I do think that Shakespeare's version is embellished, filled with untruths & many things that he wrote in his play were from Tudor historians who had their own agenda..My basis for why I think this is because one many other people had motives to get rid of the 2 princes..(This is not widely known) I know I was never taught this in school..Richard was also not the only culprit is Henry VI's death..Who also had a bigger reason to want him dead? I don't hold with the theory that his wife was poisoned at least not by him.Nothing was proven nor could it be proven even then.All we have is what could have happened .This is what we do know by his skeleton  the way Shakespeare described him is not entirely 100 % correct..Shakespeare's play is filled with inaccuracies which would be fine if people didn't take what he says as this is how Richard really was..This book tries to explain what we do know and tries to be fair...U make your own conclusion..It is hard finding books like this..