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#and the way she 'reassessed' Elizabeth's role in 1483 was very distasteful
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J.L. Laynesmith taking the 'Buckingham Did It™' route for the murder of the Princes in the Tower AND the rumors of Edward IV's bastardy ... I have to laugh
#my post
#history media
#this was in her book 'Cecily Duchess of York' which I have ... Thoughts on
#I really liked it overall - it was meticulously researched and gave me information that I hadn't previously known about Cecily
#However this often contrasts with Laynesmith's own very evident biases assumptions and conjecture
#and the effect is very jarring
#This becomes slightly more pronounced after 1464 and actually ridiculous after 1483.
#She also suggests that Henry VI may have genuinely died of a melancholy-induced stroke like Edward IV claimed which is just...lmfao
#I don't know what to say at this point lol
#To be fair she does specifically note that he died shortly after Edward arrived in London and that most contemporaries believed
#it was far too convenient
#which is far more acknowledgement and culpability than she gives Richard III whose culpability for the 'disappearance' of his nephews is
#literally never touched upon - the blame is conveniently dumped on Buckingham
#honestly the whole Deal with Buckingham is so odd. dude was a political neophyte; was given a primarily ceremonial role by Edward IV
#throughout his reign and was younger than Richard (who was a seasoned politician). What makes you think Buckingham of all people
#was some kind of political genius and making decisions over RICHARD of all people lol?
#anyway
#This book was pretty decent with Margaret of Anjou which was great
#it was less decent with Elizabeth Woodville which was not so great :/
#some of the assumptions it made (for Cecily's benefit naturally) were so weird
#and the way she 'reassessed' Elizabeth's role in 1483 was very distasteful
#I might make a separate post on that because it was very annoying
#(also claiming Henry Tudor landed with 'a small band of Lancastrian exiles' - yeah no. the majority of the 'exiles' who supported him were
#Yorkist aka Edward IV's supporters who opposed Richard. because this was very much an internal civil war between the dynasty
#and Henry became a claimant only after being chosen by Yorkists after the October risings made clear the Princes were dead
#the claim that challenged Richard's was Elizabeth of York not Henry's. let's not twist words here)
#(ALSO I'm sorry but William Stanley certainly did not choose to commit his troops to Henry Tudor because Henry was 'his brother's stepson'
#he did that out of loyalty to Edward IV and his children as Henry was the chosen claimant of the Yorkist faction
#hence why he may have betrayed Henry VII in the 1490s for Perkin Warbeck who pretended to be Edward's second son. so jot that down)
#you really see these small minor details which are very much chosen purposefully and paint a very different picture lol
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