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III according to St Thomas More, and all that.'
'Gospel nothing,' Grant said rudely. 'He was writing down in a Tudor England what someone had told him about events that happened in a Plantagenet England when he himself was five.'
'Five years old?'
'Yes.'
'Oh, dear. Not exactly the horse's mouth.'
'Not even straight from the course. Come to think of it, it's as reliable as a bookie's tips would, be. He's on the wrong side of the rails altogether. If' he was a Tudor servant he was on the laying side where Richard III was concerned.'
'Yes. Yes, I suppose so. What do you want to find out about Richard, when there is no mystery to investigate?
'I want to know what made' him tick. That is a more pro-found mystery than anything I have come up against of late. What changed him almost overnight? Up to the moment of his brother's death he seems to have been entirely admirable. And devoted to his brother.'
'I suppose the supreme honour must always be a temptation.'
'He was Regent until the boy came of age. Protector of England. With his previous history, you would think that would have been enough for him. You would have thought, indeed, that it would have been very much his cup of tea: guardian of both Edward's son and the kingdom.'
'Perhaps the brat was unbearable, and Richard longed to "lam" him. Isn't it odd how we never think of victims as anything but white innocents. Like Jo
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