Unreasonable:
1. The emotional entanglement between Princess White and Richard III: First of all, the love between this uncle and nephew is outrageous. Although consanguineous marriages were common among European royal families in the Middle Ages, such a relationship between relatives and nephews was rare. Second, the White Princess family suffered bad luck Richard III was to blame. It is generally believed that the ending of the prince in the tower was caused by Richard III. Even if it was really done by the mother of Henry VII as in the play, it is always an indisputable fact that Richard III abolished his nephew and seized the throne. The uncle who took the throne fell in love. This kind of rumor is probably related to the people who hated Richard III trying to smear him.
2. The first half of Henry VII's life was very bumpy. It can be said that he went from a nobody to the 95th Supreme Being through repeated defeats and battles. His twenty-year reign also earned him the reputation of the wise king. Without the hard work of him, Henry VIII, and three generations of Elizabeth I's grandparents, it would be difficult for Britain to have the glory of an empire that never sets in the future. In the play, in order to highlight his kindness and the spiritual success of the white princess, he is portrayed too weakly. In fact, he is a Li Shimin-style character.
Reasonable:
1. Henry VII and the White Princess were a loving couple. They married for more than ten years and gave birth to 8 children. Henry VII, who was in his prime after the death of the White Princess, changed his temperament and never married again, which was rare in that era. It can also be regarded as a typical example of getting married first, then falling in love and finally achieving positive results. This is good in the show
2. The fate of Prince Richard, the younger brother of the White Princess. Although according to official history Richard has long been missing or killed as one of the princes in the tower, and history records that the man who called himself Prince Richard was faked by a commoner named Warbeck, it is strange that this "Warbeck" It is indeed recognized by many European royal families as Prince Richard himself, including even close relatives of the York royal family. There is something interesting about this. It should be noted that the nobles at that time attached great importance to blood, and it was not easy for a commoner to impersonate the royal family. It is not completely unfounded that "Warbeck" is the real prince in the play, and it plays an important role in highlighting contradictions and shaping characters
3. Henry VII's inner self-confidence. As mentioned earlier, Henry VII was very lucky to be on the throne. He is not even close to the English throne (a descendant of the Lancastrian royal illegitimate son) than he is to the French throne (his grandmother was the daughter of the French king). The marriage to the White Princess, the eldest daughter of the York Dynasty, is an important guarantee of the legitimacy of the throne, provided that there are no male heirs of the York Dynasty. So you can imagine how much psychological pressure the man who called himself Prince Richard would bring to him.
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