Comments by "RenShiWu" (@renshiwu305) on "Really Bad History: The latest Richard III Conspiracy" video.
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The only Yorkist claimants who were definitively killed were killed by Henry VII and his son: John, Earl of Lincoln; Edmund, Duke of Suffolk; Edward, Earl of Warwick; and Margaret, Countess of Salisbury. What I find most damning about Elizabeth Woodville is that she agreed to marry her daughter to, frankly, a rather flimsy claimant to the throne who was a tool of the French Crown and to the downfall of her husband's house. She profited nothing by it, spending the remainder of her life immured in Bermondsey Abbey. She was at base a social climber - like Anne Boleyn, like Wallis Simpson, like Meghan Markle - with no sense of honor or duty. John Morton (Henry VII's Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal of the Church, and the Bishop of Ely in Shakespeare's play) did profit through the Tudor ascendance. He was originally a Lancastrian before insinuating himself onto Edward's Privy Council, extending into Richard's protectorate. He was a slippery political operator and a turncoat - like the Stanleys, who of course delivered the crown to Henry VII through an instance of literal backstabbing. John Morton was the patron of Thomas More and no doubt fed him ideas for his spurious history of Richard III.
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Is the reason for the refusal to grant access to the remains of the two children found in the Tower of London during the 17th Century for DNA testing because the Queen (who informed this refusal) is afraid of the repercussions concerning potential revelations about false paternities - and thereby blood and legal right to the throne? I believe that the DNA chain connecting a modern-day man to the 15th Century Royal Family - from the Tudors, up to Edward III, and down to Richard III - contains at least one false paternity. Edward IV was accused, even during his own lifetime, of being illegitimate. Furthermore, it is not unreasonable that Edmund Tudor, father of Henry VII, was the product of a liaison between Edmund Beaufort (note the same Christian name) and Catherine of Valois (also the mother of Henry VI). The Beauforts, Henry VII's mother's family (and also Edward IV and Richard III's mother's family) were bastard descendants of John of Gaunt, third son of Edward III. I don't think it would impact the current Royal Family's royal status, but it could shed light on what happened to Edward V and the Duke of York.
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