BUCKINGHAM is working for the DUKE OF GLOUCESTER to manipulate the country to accept him as the new King rather than his nephew, the rightful heir KING EDWARD V.  They use slanders to persuade the people that KING EDWARD V’s father, KING EDWARD IV was a licentious man with a dubious marital record, and not as religious as RICHARD, DUKE of GLOUCESTER, who eventually becomes KING RICHARD III.