The Sunne In Splendour: Sharon K. PenmanRichard III a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history. Here is his redemption Richard III was vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes, in the Tower from his maligned place in history. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother,