Horrible Histories - Richard III Song

History has been unkind to Richard III and he's written a song to set the record straight: he's a nice guy really!

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[kaledmasterme]

Never said they made it up. They exaggerated. In fact, the only known portrait of Richard shows his right shoulder elevated above his left, which is correct (the right shoulder would have appeared higher but he would not have had a "hump") -- but they also show him with CLAWS. Propaganda I tell ye ;)

As for the princes, there is no proof they were murded; they simply disappear from history.Likely they were killed, but whether by Richard or Henry it is impossible to say as there is no proof.

[tinyrebellion]

If there is an afterlife Richard has been incredibly pissed off for the last five hundred years

[pixietrix68]

so much fuss over his spine! Can anyone else appreciate the best rhyme ever. "can you imagine it, I'm the last Plantagenet" GOLD

[oberstul]

Superb song! "Sweet Richard" cracked me up! :)

[ellasfriend1]

I don't understand why everyone down votes these comments, it's just mean! :)

[misscharlieeeful]

this makes my life

[Kim Lowe]

Richard III was a victim of propganda in a time of conflict. What would have happened if they wrote something about Henry tudor as the bady?? It would be intersting. Richard III's family had a legal claim to the throne!

[SSJ2VEGEROTRULES]

Quite right, at the same time of Richard, there was Vladimir the Impaler, nicknamed Count Dracula, who impaled thousands of Turks on spikes and would force his enemies to eat their own children. Yet, the Transylvanians regarded him as a hero. Morality and brutality are relative terms.

[minkyrules]

People people people. Can we all just read this.

"On the exhumation day, that really got to me, because I was told that he was a hunchback, and that didn't fit with everything we knew about this man … luckily, once they got him back to the lab, they realised that they were wrong.

"Obviously we know that scoliosis is not a disability, it's a condition. I mean Usain Bolt has got it, Elizabeth Taylor had it, John F Kennedy had it, and I know two or three people who have it.

[timmytoast22]

There's more than one known portrait of Richard. Everything else is accurate and I agree, but there is more than one portrait of him.

[liao jun xiang cody]

nice song really sing my life...