Richard III found

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Originally Posted by Danzig

i am currently reading 'winter king' about henry the 7th. what a guy. i have several books here about richard the third. he really has gotten bad press, and actually was wanted as king by most when he claimed the crown. the woodevilles weren't exactly well-liked, by anyone, and no one wanted all the upheaval that came with a youth on the throne. richard III was many things, but a bad king wasn't one of them. so many others were truly bad kings, he doesn't belong on a 'bad king' list. edward the second, richard the second, john, stephen-those are some bad ones.
the tudors, other than elizabeth, were a train wreck.

Sir Thomas More really should get most of the credit for the negative spin on Richard III (because, let's face it, in Shakespeare's play, he's a GREAT character). More did it to suck up to Henry VIII.

That worked out really well for him in the end.