hmmm (and consider that this comes from a jane shore stan first, and a person second):

i wonder how much the narrative (in fiction, even in historic theory) of Richard III definitively, no-questions-about-it murdering the princes in the Tower comes from, like, our need to see ‘karmic retribution’ (in the way he died, in the treatment of his corpse, etc), and the belief that things ultimately happen the way they were supposed to happen & fatalism etc.