Richard III Innocent! Film at 11!

The Times Online has an article on the Richard III Society:

I don't know who killed the Princes in the Tower. But Richard III was innocent, OK. And I have now officially joined the society fighting to clear his good name.

More than five centuries after England's most reviled king died at the Battle of Bosworth (causing innkeepers up and down the land to spend the night hastily painting over their White Boar signs — his emblem that had been patriotically displayed everywhere until 1485 — with whatever blue paint they had in the house, leaving Britain with its surfeit of Blue Boar pubs to this day), a quiet army is still mobilised in Richard's defence.

Their argument is that pretty much everything we know about Richard III comes from Shakespeare's play. And pretty much everything Shakespeare knew about him came from a history written by Sir Thomas More. And More was only five years old when Richard died, so what did he know? He was writing as an adult, well into the Tudor era - making his work a mixture of gossip and victor's history. And if you disregard More, everything is up for grabs. So who knows? Richard might easily be the good guy after all.