However, Edward's sons are next in line for the throne, so they must be eliminated. Richard first decides to get rid of his
younger brother George, the Duke of Clarence, and tries to convince Edward that George is conspiring to kill him. Richard
hires two men to kill George by drowning him in a vat of wine. Meanwhile, Edward has named Richard as Lord Protector,
as his oldest son is still too young to rule in the event of his own death. Edward duly dies and Richard has the two young
princes Edward and Richard taken to the Tower of London, ostensibly for their own safety. Richard gets nobleman James
Tyrrell (Patrick Troughton) to have the princes murdered, and subsequently becomes king. The film ends with the death of
Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Both the film and the original play are both loosely based on the real-life Richard,
although historians generally believe that he did not have any of the physical deformities that have been immortalised in
popular culture. The exact fate of the Princes in the Tower is also still a matter of much debate, and there is no conclusive
evidence to suggest that the real Richard III was complicit in their murder.

Who connections:  Michael Gough plays one of the two men who murder the Duke of Clarence, and is familiar to Doctor
Who fans for playing the Celestial Toymaker during the Hartnell era and Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity.