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Was Richard III a monster

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No, but he lost his last battle, so the only people to write about him were trying to suck-up to the descendants of his victors. Shakespeare wrote of him as a monster because his monarch, Queen Elizabeth 1, was a granddaughter of Richards' enemy.

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