Richard, in Josephine Tey's play, Dickon, is a bit closer to the truth.
That is not to say that the cards are not stacked up against Richard III. We know that Richard did not approve of many of Edward IV's decisions. In fact, when Edward IV came to power in the first place in 1461, it is likely that there was some bad blood between the two of them, so to speak. "When Edward died unexpectedly in 1483,
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