A documentary to watch only if you believe in Tudor myths about Richard….!

 

Oh, indeed, as Captain Bertorelli would have said, “What a mistake-a to make-a!”

I certainly made one when I turned to the PBS America channel on TV, and they were showing Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? Well, it might contain one voice of reason (John Ashdown-Hilll) but it also has much more of Starkey. He believes More, he KNOWS Richard murdered the boys, and he KNOWS that from the luxurious royal apartment in the Tower they were moved down to much “darker” places. The entire realm was appalled when Richard became king; just ask Starkey. He KNOWS. There ain’t nothin’ about Richard that Starkey doesn’t KNOW for a FACT. Clearly Richard sends him confessions from beyond the grave! (Although I can’t imagine for a moment that Richard, guilty or innocent, would choose Starkey with whom to communicate!)

Of course, the actor playing Richard portrays him as of an unsmiling, sinister, threatening disposition. He peers ominously from around a curtain of suspiciously dark hair, his eyes craft and dangerous. Oh yes, he has FIEND and MURDERER written all over him. The entire country fainted in horror when he became king. And presumably regained consciousness when treachery put Henry VII on the throne. How it managed to stay conscious throughout the next dreadful century or so of Tudors, I really don’t know.

So sure was the world that Richard disposed of the princes, that Henry never for a MOMENT believed Perkin Warbeck could be genuine. Really? Then why did said Henry spend the first part of his reign turning the world upside down looking for the boys, and why was he haunted throughout the rest of his life by the thought of a pretender arriving to usurp him as he’d usurped Richard?

Be warned. Starkey rules supreme in this load of junk. He has far more to say than anyone else, and there isn’t a myth he doesn’t KNOW is FACT! The man’s a loony. Don’t bother to watch.

But if you must, you can see all of it here.

from PBS trailer, not the You Tube link above