I read the feature Psychologists Flesh Out King Richard III (March 6) with great interest.

Being a member of the Richard III Society, I have made the ‘pilgrimage’ to Bosworth Field a number of times.

I have always believed that Richard did not murder the princes in the Tower as Tudor propaganda would have us believe. If he had done so, it

would not have helped his claim to the throne at all because there was still his nephew, Warwick, son of his elder brother Clarence, who had been executed by Edward IV.

Not only did Richard not murder Warwick but he initially named him as his heir.

Warwick was later imprisoned in the Tower by the usurper, Henry Tudor, later Henry VII.

Henry then had him executed, thus removing a major obstruction to his tenuous claim. History is always written by the victors!

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