Dr Kat and Framing Richard III?

Richard III is arguably one of history's greatest villains. Is his reputation well deserved? Or, is he the victim of a Tudor / Shakespearean "frame job"?

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]
Images:

Screenshot taken from http://www.richardiii.net

Anonymous portrait of Richard III (c.1504–20). © Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (2016)

William Sherlock’s image of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (18th century). Held by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Anonymous portrait of Lady Margaret Beaufort (second half of 16th century). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Anonymous (Netherlandish) portrait of Henry VII (1505). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.


Quoted texts:

William Shakespeare’s “The Life and Death of Richard the Third” (c.1592-3)

“The historie of king Edward the fift, and king Richard the third vnfinished, written by maister Thomas More then one of the vnder shiriffes of London, about the yeare of our Lord 1513, according to a copie of his owne hand, printed among his other workes.” From Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587).

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