Comments by "Kimberly Perrotis" (@kimberlyperrotis8962) on "Really Bad History: The latest Richard III Conspiracy" video.

  1. There is a lot of of wishful thinking going on at the Richard III Society. I don’t disagree with them that Richard might have otherwise made a “good king”, but not if he had to murder children and friends, and discredit his mother and brother, to get there. I always suspected him of also having, at least indirectly, promoted his wife’s death. If by nothing else, by the withdrawal of attention or affection, if he ever had any for her. Only fiction suggests that he did; he more likely married her only for her half share of the enormous Warwick inheritance, when it was unlikely he could ever expect to be more than a Duke. After making himself king, and his only son dying, Queen Anne was in the way of his making a more prestigious and advantageous royal marriage, and, most importantly, to try for another heir. She might have been sickly, as she only ever produced the one child.
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  2. It seems most likely to me that the restored Marquis had the expensive stained glass installed, to glorify his Yorkist connections, he had the right family connection, status and wealth for that. The Evans tomb could have been put in separately, by either Dorset’s or Evans’ agency. I don’t think there is any significance in Evans’ effigy “looking at the stained glass”, tomb effigies had to look somewhere, or have closed eyes, maybe he’s looking east for the Second Coming (I don’t have enough information on this). I think there are always plenty of square-jawed men about, that doesn’t make them kings just because some kings had them.
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