Richard III

Richard III (1452–85),
King of England (reigned 1483–5). He appears as crookback Richard in The First Part of the Contention (2 Henry VI) and subsequently becomes Earl of Gloucester in Richard, Duke of York (3 Henry VI) before enjoying his finest hour in Richard III. An entire association, the Richard III Society, is devoted to pointing out (with considerable justification) that he was innocent of most of the crimes which Holinshed's chronicles and thence Shakespeare attribute to him.

Anne Button