Mel Brooks famously declared “It’s good to be the King,” but does Terry Jones agree? In this documentary, Jones profiles Richard the Lionhearted (a spendthrift psychotic who hated England); Richard II (actually quite reasonable); and Richard III (who wasn’t even a hunchback). As with the Emperors of Rome, it appears that our contemporary view of England’s Kings has much more to do with posthumous propaganda than with reality. “History isn’t so much what happened as what someone wants us to THINK happened.”
I love this series, is it too obvious?
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