I went to school with Richard III - (sort of).

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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:17 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/experts-weve-found-englands-king-richard-iii-104514414.html

Checking on the video of the excavation in Leicester, it's definitely next door to Alderman Newton's Boys School just across the road from the dinner hall.

Ee bye gum them wut days. In those days kids could blow things up and not get labelled a terrorist. I remember when they built a major international hotel close by on a Roman burial ground, having removed all the remains, so they thought. They took us on a school trip there (a ten minute walk) and it took us about half an hour before we found more and got bundled off the site.

Our school colours were green and red which made you a conspicuous target where most other schools wore black.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:06 pm

They paved Plantagenet and put up a parking lot.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:14 pm

Amazing. Has anyone said what they are planning to do with his bones?

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:39 pm

^ At the moment the plan is to bury his remains at Leicester Cathedral.

There is all sorts of talk on social networking forums about some kind of state burial, but I can't see that happening.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:41 pm

The Richard III Society want his remains to go North and others want his remains to go to London, but bearing in mind Leicester's lack of anything or anyone of note (except Daniel Lambert the UK's fattest person), it's certain he'll go across the road to the Cathedral.

As UK Cathedral's go, Leicester is about as featureless and uninteresting as they come, so having a King's tomb is not something they'll give up without a fight. I've visited many of the UK's Cathedrals as historic monuments but didn't even think of going to Leicester.

I'm sure there'll be much fuss over it, and bearing in mind that he was a pre-Reformation King, that alone adds some wrinkles they'll have to gloss over.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:46 pm

Yes, there are going to be problems. Maybe they could bury half in Westminster Cathedral and the other half in Leicester.

That would please everyone. Wink

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:00 pm

Remember folks, you heard it here first..
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=223037

A very good article about it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/04/richard-iii-dna-bones-king?intcmp=122

If you're in the UK, watch Channel 4 at 9pm - Richard III: The King in the Car Park

On a related note, a few years ago I went to the Bosworth visitor's centre, built in 1974, with dioramas of the battle, showing where Richard fell. Only its in the wrong place!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8523386.stm

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:12 pm

Captain Pugwash wrote:

They paved Plantagenet and put up a parking lot.

Very clever - Very Happy

And a big yellow sedan took away my old man...

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:47 pm

^

Really looking forward to the C4 Prog tonight.

A curry, I think. Very Happy

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:55 pm

So... doesn't this make RIII's DNA proven direct descendant, Michael Ibsen our true King?

I for one welcome our new Canadian overlords!

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:03 am

Just another piece of the jigsaw of British history fitted. Everything, including, in 1066 when the Norman William 11 invaded, was essentially a family squabble through the Barons, Plantagenets and the War of the Roses until the Tudors took power then it all went Religious. It took the English Civil War to start a democracy and get rid of the 'Divine right to Rule' by Monarchs.
History is written by the victors, and Richard 111 was vilified at the time, but at least now the remains of one of the main players can get a place amongst the rest of them.

Roy - Does that mean that PF can now be Knighted?

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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:19 pm

Esox lucius wrote:

Roy - Does that mean that PF can now be Knighted?

No chance, he'd see that coming a mile off and counter with a cunning Sicilian Defence.

Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:20 pm

I loved the C4 documentary, which ended with the audio from the opening of yesterday's press conference. The Scottish lady who thought she could 'feel his presence' under a letter 'R' painted on the carpark came over as something of a fruitcake, but they hit bones with the first few shovelfuls!

Perhaps he didn't dies at Bosworth after all - round here it is an ancient tradition that if you have a dispute with someone, it should be settled in the car park.

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