This series was made in 2015.) With enormous effort I resist the temptation to cry "Off with their heads!" But I wish that while the people responsible for this travesty still do have their heads they would open their eyes and use them. Has nobody involved with this production ever seen any of the surviving contemporary or near-contemporary portraits of Richard III? They've been all over the world ever since his remains were discovered in a car-park here in Leicester. Richard had long hair and was clean-shaven. ( That was the boys' uncle George, Duke of Clarence.) And we see Richard III at his coronation with short hair and a full beard. Dan Jones's narration tells us that rumors were circulating that, among other things, the boys may have been 'drowned in a vat of wine'. The Wars of the Roses ended in August 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at the battle of Bosworth, but Henry VII would never have become king and. The older boy, Edward, who was only 12, looks about 16. We see the two young 'Princes in the Tower', Edward and Richard. I have just watched Episode 3, "The Princes Must Die", and I feel so incensed that I must write this brief review.
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