Worked up this illustration of a couple I saw on the train a few weeks back… I embellished a little on the design; the guy didn’t have this body frame, & neither wore gold, but both carried a powerful sense of African pride about them, which I loved… People couldn’t take their eyes off them… I loved that too.
New clues may resolve a royal murder mystery dating to more than 500 years ago — and the conclusion is: The king did it.
Richard III was crowned King of England in 1483, and many have long suspected that he gained the throne through the cold-blooded assassination of two young nephews who stood in his way — Edward V, age 12, and Richard, Duke of York, age 9. After King Edward IV’s death, Richard III seized power and imprisoned the youngsters in the Tower of London. “They were never seen alive again,” according to the United Kingdom’s Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) website.
Rumors abounded that Richard ordered the princes’ deaths, and the discovery of a previously unknown “inside source” strengthens the most damning account of the monarch’s guilt, Tim Thornton, a professor of history in the Department of History, English, Linguistics and Music at the University of Huddersfield in England, wrote in a new study. Read more.
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