[DanaC]

No...but Brian definitely uses his hair to good effect...

What's irritating me is all the stuff around this body they found buried in a carpark, which is apparently the body of Richard III.

I am sick to death of hearing 'England's most notorious king'. Really? Most notorious? Because of some nonsense propoganda that has him as an infanticide? What about William the Conqueror and the Harrowing of the North? Two dead princes outweighs the wholescale slaughter and devastation of the North? What of John? Some of his tactics against the barons were truly appalling. The history of the kings and queens of England are a litany of terror tactics, murder, assassination, torture imprisonment, collective punishment of whole populations and executions of blood relatives and spouses.

I know he's the one we all know about. But what we know about him is mainly bullshit.


[eta] bullshit is perhaps a tad strong...unprovable and too muddied with propaganda to ever know for sure though. But even if he had killed the princes, even if he was every bit as much of a wrong un as he has been painted...he wasn't the worst.