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actualdisneyprincess
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I‘m having a harder time with this than I expected to; it feels really slow-going. 😬 Hopefully it picks up a little bit. #katherineofaragon #catalinadearagonycastile #thetruequeen #alisonweir #henryviii #sixwivesofhenryviii #sixtudorqueens #tudorhistory #divorced

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aliasNayNay
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I was totally immersed in this book. The characters have been beautifully portrayed and sprang to life with their own trials and tribulations. The Tudor court was brought to life along with all the intrigue and passions of the time. Alison Weir is one of they best historical fiction authors. #historicalfiction #tudors #alisonweir

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GingerAntics
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I just couldn‘t bring myself to finish this book. This isn‘t even real history. She‘s clearly confused fact and fiction. She didn‘t do her research on this. She‘s claiming things written half a century after Richard‘s death are contemporary to Richard killing his nephews. She can‘t seem to commit to his nephews being alive or dead at any one time.
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GingerAntics If she truly believes this is irrefutable evidence of Richard‘s guilt, I really hope she never sits on a jury in her life. #AlisonWeir #ThePrincesInTheTower #historicalfiction 3y
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GingerAntics
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There is literally no more evidence for her own theories than this one. This entire book is conjecture, and it‘s getting tiring.
#AlisonWeir #ThePrincesInTheTower #exhausting

TrishB 😁😁 3y
GingerAntics @TrishB I‘m not sure I can even call this scholarship. She‘s taken the sparse evidence that exists and claims it proves her theory, but it doesn‘t prove anyone‘s theory because it‘s like 50 pieces of a 500 piece puzzle. You can‘t even tell what it‘s a puzzle of. 3y
TrishB There‘s a very blurred line between her fiction and non fiction and so people just accept it all as fact 🤷‍♀️ 3y
GingerAntics @TrishB that is the perfect way to put it…that‘s what drives me absolutely NUTS about historical fiction and even fiction based in historical periods. People seem to forget that it‘s FICTION!!! 3y
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GingerAntics
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He speaks with authority, so it‘s reasonable to say he‘s trustworthy. WHAT?! That is not how it works. He was a man of caution, so we can trust him. REALLY? We could describe Henry VI was “cautious” but I wouldn‘t trust him with my pet rock. Does this woman know how logic works? She was a history teacher? I‘m terrified of what she taught her students.
#AlisonWeir #ThePrincesInTheTower #FaultyLogic #WhatIsHappeningHere

Sophronisba I am almost a year late to this party -- and I think I actually liked The Princes in the Tower more than you did -- but this kind of logic is legion in Weir's books. In Mistress of the Monarchy her entire argument that John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford didn't commit adultery when her husband was alive is that John of Gaunt _told_ the Pope that they didn't, and he wouldn't have lied to the Pope. 2y
GingerAntics @Sophronisba 🤣😂🤣 wow really? Britney Spears told the pope she was a virgin, and I didn‘t believe that either. I‘ve heard this about her work, that she doesn‘t use the best sources or logic. I think I removed any more of her books from my TBR after I finished this one. She‘s not really helping the case of female historians. It drives me nuts. She‘s literally costing other women jobs. 2y
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GingerAntics
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Can I get some proof of this? I mean logical proof. I don‘t think Alison Weir has ever been catholic. Being alive is a reason for guilt, along with eating too much, wanting to have sex with your spouse, thinking you look good in a particular color… I could go on. There is literally NO PROOF for any of this.
#AlisonWeir #ThePrincesInTheTower #ShadyAcademia #clueless

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GingerAntics
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Why would it be plausible that he would write down his orders to kill his nephews? That makes exactly ZERO sense. This book is getting less and less plausible.
#AlisonWeir #ThePrincesInTheTower #wtf

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GingerAntics
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So pretty much everyone (but the Wydvilles of course) saw that it was better for EdV to be with Richard (and also his brother Richard)…but Uncle Richard is the bad guy? To the Wydvilles, obviously. This might be one of the greatest smear campaigns in history.
#AlisonWeir #ThePrincesInTheTower

GingerAntics If I were any member of this family on the royal side, I wouldn‘t want EdV or the Duke of York anywhere near their half brothers or anyone else on the Wydville side either. 3y
GingerAntics You best believe Queen Elizabeth with take George, Charlotte, and Louise if for some reason the Middletons started acting all crazy like this. 3y
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GingerAntics
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I get that you‘d go through the motions at this stage if you had ideas of promotion and wait to kill your nephew when there were fewer witnesses, but I‘m supposed to believe that NO ONE picked up on anything? The whole bloody country was full of idiots? The only people who say Richard had plans are the bloody Wydvilles (and now my phone knows how to spell that… great).
#AlisonWeir #ThePrincesInTheTower

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GingerAntics
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The Wydvilles are the real villains here. How are you not going to tell somebody their brother died? Oh yeah, because you‘re being shady. There is record that EdIV wanted Richard to oversee/advise EdV until he was older. Sadly, the documents no longer remain, but mention of them does. I‘m seeing a lot of shady behaviour here, but none of it is Richard‘s.
#AlisonWeir #ThePrincesInTheTower