Hey, I’m not going to wade into the “Richard was painted a villain by history” thing. People feel too strongly about it.
What I said was that he had a severe scoliosis, and that such things were very difficult to hide, with the level of court intrigue. It was a vicious time and at that level real schemers use everything they can to do all the damage they can - and no one will say the Tudors weren’t schemers. Heck, they killed him, didn’t they? Now what people thought of him at the time we’ll probably really never know.
The only people who would have known about his scoliosis were his close personal attendants and family. The only descriptions of him describe him as short and thin. No one mentions any raised shoulder - not even the rumor-mongering spies of King Louis and they would have been the first to push the “deformed” line. Thomas More described him as ugly and with a withered arm - we now know the withered arm was a lie. BTW, his scoliosis is adolescent on-set - developed as a young page and squire. I’m told that it had nothing to do with rigorous physical training but I find that hard to believe.
Don’t feel run off because some people get out of control.