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Julia Dietz's avatar

An interesting piece of fear-mongering that is all too familiar to anyone watching cable news these days

Nathen Amin's avatar

Yeah, for sure.

McKenzie Franklin's avatar

I was thinking the exact same thing!

HistoryGirl199 (Lisa)'s avatar

Talk about scaremongering! The Tudors were good at propaganda, but so was Richard III.

Banditqueen's avatar

Didn't Henry say more or less the same thing? Scare mongering, obviously, propaganda, yes of course. It always seems to me that these "rebels and traitors" proclamations all used the same language. They probably used a template.

Annie Seymour's avatar

-Susan Higginbotham's blog played a significant role in restoring the reputations of the Gray brothers and Edward, and she also criticized Richard III's propaganda

Annie Seymour's avatar

Historian Ross pointed out that Richard III's smear attack on Dorset was the first time in English history that a king used personality defamation as a means of manipulating public opinion.Ricardian's propaganda is very impressive. He is still poisoning the reputation of the Gray brothers and Edward Woodville. Edward Woodville died at the age of thirty without a wife or children, but due to the records of Mancini (most likely influenced by Richard III's political propaganda), he is now considered a promiscuous person