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'Because it was Stanley's sudden decision to go over to the other side that lost Richard the battle of Bosworth.'
'You don't say.'
'Odd to think that if Richard had seen to it that Stanley went to the block like his much-loved Hastings, he would have won the battle of Bosworth, there would never have been any Tudors, and the hunchbacked monster that appears in Tudor tradition would never have been invented. On his previous showing he would probably have had the best and most~ enlightened reign in history. What was done to Morton?'
'Nothing.'
'Another mistake.'
'Or at least nothing to signify. He was put into gentlemanly detention under the care of Buckingham. The people who did go to the block were the heads of the conspiracy that Richard had arrested at Northampton: Rivers and Co. And Jane Shore was sentenced to do penance.'
'Jane Shore? What on earth has she got to do with the case? I thought she was Edward's mistress?'
'So she was. But Hastings inherited her from Edward, it stems. Or rather - let me see - Dorset did. And she was go-between between the Hastings side of the conspiracy and the Woodville side. One of Richard's lett
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