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Originally Posted by Victoria
Sorry Bookpossum the article actually leans towards Catlady on this one, and acknowledges him as the rightful king. Second paragraph begins “Elizabeth, the wife of Edward IV, mother of Edward V and maternal grandmother of Henry VIII...”  |
Oh yes, he was kept on the king list, as it were, by the Tudors, and Henry VIII's son was therefore called Edward VI.
But in arguing that Richard "stole the throne" from Edward V, I think it is well to remember the enormous power of the church back then. After all, Henry VIII couldn't get an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and had to break away from Rome in order to be able to marry Anne Boleyn.
So the fact that the church agreed with and was party to Titulus Regius, and the Archbishop of Canterbury crowned Richard king cannot be brushed aside as something he made them do. The setting aside of Edward was not done lightly, or just because Richard demanded it.