#11 "Why should we believe Holbein?"
Since I believe in good
methods, I neither believe nor disbelieve but merely remember what is said and
then test it for myself, thoroughly. I have to draw attention that
documentation from the 16th century, which made no sense before, has been
tested and makes sense today. Personally, I do not twist facts to fit my
theory. I twist and torture my theory to fit the facts and no-one has come up
with a better theory or better interpretation of the evidence to date, over a
substantial period of time, 1976-2000, and I'm very glad about that.
#12 "How do we know Holbein isn't a
hoaxer?"
On the one hand, we know
Holbein left personal and secret political information literally 'on the wall',
for anyone to see, when there was much less risk if he had left the information
in a diary, perhaps in code, buried in the ground for someone to find at a much
later date. We know the story Holbein tells amounts to sedition and treason,
whether true or false, and many honest men have hanged for less. On the other
hand, if DNA findings are positive...he is not a hoaxer. But that still does
not tell us why he risks his life to tell us the story. The most likely answer
is in an unpublished book, Volume No. 1 of five volumes, written by me, which
one day you may be able to buy and read about the greatest portrait painter in
Henry the Eighth's Tudor England, the German artist who virtually alone created
the record we have today of the English Court in the 16th century, showing us
not just Holbein the artist but the life and times of Holbein the Man.
For the record, the risk to
the artist was the fate awaiting a commoner condemned to die for treason -- to
quote the sentence passed on Bishop John Fisher in 1535:
You
shall be led to the place whence you came and from there shall be drawn through
the City to the place of execution at Tyburn, where your body shall be hanged
by the neck; and, being half live, you shall be cut down and thrown to the
ground, your bowels to be taken out of your body, and burnt before you being
alive; your head shall be smitten off; and your body divided into four
quarters; and after, your head and quarters be set up where the King shall
appoint; and God have mercy upon your soul. (The Life and
Death of St. Thomas More by E.E. Reynolds, Burns & Oates, London, 1978,
p.346)
#13 Please answer the seminal question: "For
what, so silently, died More?"
Holbein's testimony on this
central point of why More did not protest with all the legal skills we know he
possessed when he was found guilty of treason in one of the greatest travesties
of justice ever seen at trial in England, contributes greatly to the
understanding of this period of history. If true, it means that this famous
question, first raised by regius professor Dom David Knowles (Thank you for
reminding me!), suggests today that More sacrificed his life in silence rather
than be part of a popular cause for civil war advocated by his friends, unhappy
at the Divorce, who wanted to replace the legal heir, Henry VIII, with the
rightful heir, Richard IV (Richard, Duke of York, also known as John Clement).
(See: "The Princes in the Tower")
#14 "What will you do if the DNA findings show
the continued existence of the two princes?”
If DNA profiling confirms
the former existence of two missing persons living under false names and
identities, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, I propose a full and proper
investigation by an open-minded and multi-disciplined committee willing to
listen and examine new evidence, using systematic criteria in an on-going
method of inquiry. I propose to present the evidentiary case in book form.
Since the research findings extend into multiple volumes, the first volume will
be strictly confined to the central theme of the deception plan and how it was
kept in place, borrowing global jargon of the national security agencies to
describe and explain the methods to support and keep in place a plan of
deception. The inquiry will read the given and received history of Henry VII on
the tightrope while his enemies set fire to the rope. The inquiry will also
hear expert opinion on the black-ops, which kept Henry VII from being burned.
The criteria used in cases
where persons at risk assume false names and identities, the role of the case
officer and the required behaviour of the notional person he creates, are
described and explained in detail. The inquiry will see the "new"
pictorial evidence, corroborating the deception plan and the subsequent
cover-up in many paintings and drawings attributed to the German portraitist at
the court of Henry VIII, Hans Holbein the Younger. Finally, I recommend that
the inquiry sit in the Lower Hall at Nostell Priory in front of the painting
and that the public be admitted to seats in front of the long oak tables
holding the books and other documentary evidence behind which the distinguished
panel may take their places: the case to be presented by Michael Mansfield QC
and the findings submitted for judicial review and, if positive, enacted in the
Rolls of Parliament.
#15 "If Elizabeth II is not the rightful queen
of England, who is?"
There is a story
in the UK that an American Mafia boss had a novel idea and called Buckingham
Palace. "Declare war on America," he advised. "But America is
our ally", said the Queen’s private secretary. "Forget it! You
declare war, we beat you in a week, we pay for the damage and you’re the next
US State!"
"And what
if we win?"
To be blunt,
Rebellion, Regicide and Usurpation IS the history of England. That's a line from
The Debt, a play translating the new history into drama for the stage, written
by me at the insistence of the late and great Sam Wanamaker. Some of you may
remember it. Today, Elizabeth II is the Queen of England and she and her
descendants remain the legal kings and queens of England unless Parliament
decrees otherwise. Parliament means the Lords, the Commons and the People.
There is no other rightful Queen of England. That is the law and I like it!
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#67 “I cannot believe
that such a controversial theory as yours can be a fertile theory…”
The so-called “fertile theory” explodes on an
unsuspecting world shooting outwards in all possible directions. If it doesn’t
– it’s not a fertile theory. This is the odd test applied over a substantial
period of time in the study of methods. This test was applied first to my
conjecture that More’s History of King Richard III was a blind. The
blast into a highly combative academic world of history, art history,
linguistics, literature, secret writings and secret history, something I could
not possibly have known at the time, left me with no alternative – I was a
rocket on the launch pad and obliged ABSOLUTELY to shoot into space – Whatever!
Whatever! This month, I land on the National Gallery, London, in the latest
battle I intend to win, and be seen to win, in space. Click ß FAQs à Talking
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