The White Boar Author:Marian Palmer Richard III, last of the Plantagenet Kings, could condemn the author of that crude doggerel to a traitors death but he could not stern the inevitable tide of history. Richards emblem, the white boar, commanded the loyalty of men like Lords Catesby (the cat) and Ratliff (the rat) and Francis Lovell (our dog). It could not withstand the onslaught ... more »of the Tudor Rose.« less