Do you think Richard loved ... (not Anne)? + thoughts (spoilers)

I don't know.

All of his motives and true feelings are very, very ambiguous in this production.

I think Anne was become so paranoid and consumed with her obsession over Elizabeth (I) that she wasn't really connected to Richard 3. You see that in the funeral of their don when he tries to go to Anne and she pushes him away, but Elizabeth reaches for his hand. Plus let's face it, Elizabeth was far more attractive and youthful, and making herself very available. He is is a man. I think he had mixed feelings.

Well the real Richard may have been ambitious and shrewd, but he was never going to marry his niece. He wasn't stupid. She was illigitmate and couldn't be Queen. He was really going to marry Princess Joanna of Portugal, a better match.

I think he truly loved Anne. However, I think he fell in love with Elizabeth too even though that was not his initial intention in using her to disgrace Henry Tudor. I also think he would not have done anything to betray Anne,not just for love but his ambitions were more important than women.I do think he would have married Elizabeth had he not been killed in battle and lost to Tudor.

Richard's feelings for Anne and Elizabeth are ambiguous because the situation is ambiguous. Both women symbolize enormous political power. No matter what, people, including Anne and Elizabeth, will doubt Richard's intentions.

If both women have no political, social, and economic advantage, will Richard still love them?

I think so, at least in this story.

George accused Richard of marrying Anne for her fortune, but at the time of their marriage, Anne's fortune was not in her hands until Richard and George reached a compromise. Richard did show concern for Anne's plight. Anne always wanted to marry Richard, and Richard was at least fond of her but his feelings for her were not as deep. Anne always doubted his love but he always shared his most intimate thoughts with her.

The portrayal of Richard's and Elizabeth's romance is off in my opinion. Lord Stanley was saying how obvious it was that Elizabeth loved Richard with body, mind, soul. Their supposed deep feelings for each other were not obvious to me! Prior to that, the only encounter between Richard and Elizabeth was in the abbey in the presence of mother Elizabeth Woodville where Richard exclaimed at how beautiful Princess Elizabeth was. I saw it as a compliment rather than the beginnings of an intense, passionate romantic love.

I think he may have loved Anne as a childhood friend and did want to protect her, and marrying her was the only sure way to do that. To me the wedding night scene emphasized that; he knew what Edward of Lancaster had done so letting Anne take the lead kept Richard from unintentionally hurting her and established trust in the marriage bed rather than fear or disgust. A lot of people still don't believe it but a good sex life is crucial to a good marriage. It was the same then. He respected Anne and her opinions, but after Elizabeth's curse she blamed Edward for the illnesses and deaths of their children. I don't even think she would have been so hurt and angry over his affections for Princess Elizabeth if she had been someone else's daughter. All of that anger and hate could have been prevented if Edward and Elizabeth had cultivated their beginning relationships with family with a bit more caution and sense, but she hated Anne because she was Warwick's daughter.

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