Hey, a hunchback who gave out gilded silver boar badges can’t have been all bad. Maybe those kids in the tower committed seppuku cause they were caught with copies of “Milkmaid” in the jakes.
If he’d had the press in his pocket like Obama, folks would still be singing hosannas to his name.
But nooooo. He had the luck to be overthrown, couldn’t find a lousy horse to get away and then followed by a line of rival who paid off a pretty fair wordsmith (propaganda ministry) whose alias was Shakespeare and the rest is history...sort of.
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” — Ovid