The Boys' Tale was an in-joke. We are both fans of the theory that King Richard III was by no means the "bottled spider" as depicted for centuries. So it was fun to play with other fans of that theory, slowly revealing who the two boys were -- one would grow up to father Henry VII, the man who overthrew Richard in 1485 at Bosworth Field.The boys' mother was the dowager Queen, their father a nobody named Tidder, or Tydor, sometimes spelled Tudor.

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