Richard the Third
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The Myth of Richard III
It's one of those odd things because it kind of does speak to our belief in some of the myths and stories around Richard III. Lots of people believed he didn't have the scoliosis or the bunchback that Shakespeare gives him based on the fact that lots of the portraiture that you can see on x-rays, that the raised shoulder was added after the portrait was originally done. But we know now he did have scoliosis. So it's incredible how we kind of rely on some parts of this story that are myth that can be disproven with fact. And I would say the idea that Richard murdered his nephews is just that. It may be true. We
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