The Three Musketeers Lesson Plan

What reasons might Felton and other English people have had for disliking the duke of Buckingham? Did the duke's own unpopularity in some respects bring his assassination down upon himself?

As some students might already suspect, Felton and other English people dislike the duke of Buckingham because he is seen as effeminate, profligate, and as an exorbitant taxer (among other things). This is all alluded to in a comment that Felton made about the duke while in conversation with Milady. Yet students might disagree that this in any way means that the duke brought about his own downfall; regardless of how unpopular he was, they might say, he was assassinated. The teacher...