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Does the reputation of Richard III deserve rehabilitation?

September 24, 2013

The Catholic culture of the time may have persuaded Richard that the Princes in the Tower needed to 'disappear'

The bodies might be gone but the Tudor appetite for desecration still chills the blood

September 17, 2013

The fate of James IV of Scots seems to point to a tradition that left the Tudors inured to the mistreatment of the dead

The romantic but violent story of the real White Queen

July 24, 2013

Elizabeth Woodville was an extraordinary and beautiful woman whose descendents still rule us

I don’t mind where they bury Richard III; but having been denied Christian burial by Henry Tudor, he must now be given a Catholic funeral Mass

February 06, 2013

To bury England’s last Plantagenet King, a man of considerable piety, as though he had been a Protestant would be an utterly offensive act

Richard III: not as nasty as you thought?

August 31, 2012

Should the last king killed in battle be given a Catholic burial in Westminster?

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