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#that - propagandic lies to vilify EW and her family
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"In reality Richard III invented a Woodville scare as a screen for his own conspiracy"
-A.J Pollard, "Richard III and the Princes in the Tower"
#lmao
#r*chard iii
#my post
#I think that's true for all usurpations and coups to an extent
#but its 10x more applicable and accurate for Richard III
#Not only because of the compressed length of time (a mere 3 months as opposed to years of back-and-forth tensions)
#but also because ultimately one of the key reasons Richard could do what he did was because he did it from the heart of the political
#institution (ie he was an internal threat rather than an external one)
#and he was someone who was trusted and loved rather than mistrusted and hated. His betrayal was political but it also had far more personal
#ramifications for everyone involved - most people simply did not expect it from him and cooperated with him precisely because of that
#which enabled him to seize power before most people even realized what he was doing
#And there's the fact that he actually did stage a conspiracy by accusing the Woodvilles of plotting to attack and ambush him
#and produced weapons from his own war in Scotland as fake 'proof' - when in fact we know that HE deceived and ambushed THEM
#there's also the (propagandic) lie that they usurped him from the position as Lord Protector when they certainly didn't
#either Edward IV didn't appoint Richard Lord Protector meaning the Woodvilles denied him nothing
#OR the council collectively chose to have a council rule during Edward V's minority rather than a Protector (something they were entirely
#within their rights to do both socially and legally)
#so claims that they wrongly defied Edward IV's last wishes or broke the law (which Mancini repeats in his account) must be seen as exactly
#that - propagandic lies to vilify EW and her family
#when in fact Richard was the one plotting a seizure of power - whether it was as Lord Protector or as King
#(of course these are just two things - there's a whole laundry list of others)
#so this is definitely applicable to him
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