Requiem of the Rose King — Season 1, Episode 17: Because God has chosen this bloody demon.

Episode synopsis

Hastings and the Queen Mother carry out a plan to disqualify Richard...but it's revealed that Edward V, son of Edward IV and Elizabeth, had no rightful claim to the throne. So Edward V and his brother are imprisoned in the Tower of London. Thus Richard steadily closes in on the throne...but Cecily agitates the people against it, stating "the devil must not be made king!" Faced with throngs of angry citizens, Richard and Buckingham put on the play of the century.

About Requiem of the Rose King

The crown of England has been hotly contested throughout history, and in the Middle Ages, a series of great civil wars became known as the War of the Roses. Claiming a right to the throne, the Duke of York seeks to unseat King Henry VI and his heir in order to become king himself.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Wars of the Roses
• E2Father Is My Light
• E3I Am the Shadow, the Darkness Behind the Light
• E4I’m Afraid I’m Going to Lose the Answers I’ve Gotten and...Everything Else
• E5If I Don’t Grab Your Hand, I Won’t Have to Let Go
• E6A man who has no awareness as king... A man who is not qualified to be king... Neither of them is fit for the throne.
• E7Even if I sin...
• E8Even alone, it wasn’t frightening. Rather... the loneliness has been kind ever since losing Father.
• E9I remember when Christmas was approaching. The time when I lost Father.
• E10My name is Richard Plantagenet.
• E11That is my… my punishment…
• E12Richard is dead, died alone in the woods that day.