Actually, he's playing Shakespeare's Richard III (especially in his suggestion about the old King being "wine, women and song" - which is a reasonable suggestion for later period Edward IV) not the Richard III of The Daughter of Time, in whom he professes to believe (I have met people in my days in the Richard III society who argued that RIII did it* because it was the right thing to do for the Kingdom, but so far as I can tell Patrick isn't one of them, he simply believes the straight Tey line)


*kill the princes