![]() ![]() There's also a failed raid on the Tower of London to rescue the boys which is entirely fictional. Richard III's son Edward of Middleham is shown dying in 1485 when he actually died the year before. Buckingham's rebellion took place in October 1483. In Real Life, the boys were never seen again after summer 1483, and by the end of that year, everyone on both sides presumed them dead. It also places Buckingham's rebellion in that year. The series has the Princes in the Tower alive in 1484, with Elizabeth still trying to get her sons back.Elizabeth's swapping of her son Richard of Shrewsbury for a servant boy to save him from Richard III is based on popular myth.No records survive of the real Jacquetta's appearance, but if a royal woman in fifteenth-century England had been six feet tall, it probably would have been remembered.It did not resemble the damp, dingy cellar depicted on screen. Westminster Abbey had a dedicated sanctuary building.Obviously, Jacquetta was not really a witch! She was indeed accused of witchcraft by Warwick in 1470 and by Richard III in 1483, but naturally these claims were unsubstantiated.There were rumours at the time that the King would marry his niece after Queen Anne's death, but little evidence to support them. The romance between Richard III and Elizabeth of York is largely fictitious.It was only with the disappearance of Edward IV's sons in 1483 that a Tudor accession became even remotely plausible. And even after both Henry VI and Edward were murdered in 1471 (Henry in the Tower of London, Edward at Tewkesbury), no one really took Henry's prospects seriously, and Margaret certainly was not The Chessmaster egging on open warfare between Richard of Gloucester and Queen Elizabeth. Margaret Beaufort did not devote all of her son's life to getting him on the throne, nor would the young Henry Tudor have declared himself "heir to the Lancastrian throne" when Henry VI and his son Edward of Lancaster were still alive. ![]()
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