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electric*mayhem*band · ‎23-03-2015

Or as some of the campaigners in York are saying, 'a pantomime' ? (Or could this be a case of sour grapes) ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-31990721

Either way, you'd have thought the landed gentry of Leicester could have afforded a better coffin than that. It looks like an ammunition box.

curmu-curmu · ‎23-03-2015

I suppose that as most men of that era were raised to be cannon fodder, then an ammo box is probably pretty apt!

gleee58 · ‎23-03-2015

@electric*mayhem*band wrote:
Or as some of the campaigners in York are saying, 'a pantomime' ? (Or could this be a case of sour grapes) ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-31990721

Either way, you'd have thought the landed gentry of Leicester could have afforded a better coffin than that. It looks like an ammunition box.

It has the feel of a midsomer murders episode.

Yes, I think sour grapes it might be.

myoclon1cjerk · ‎23-03-2015

I wonder if the carpenter is also related to Henrik Ibsen?

jean2579 · ‎23-03-2015

I just watched it on tv here in Australia. Why wasn't. A member of the Royal Family present?
I seem to recall that, I think it was last year in Denmark when a long dead Queen was required, that the entire Danish Royal Family turned out.
It looked like a very simple ceremony for a Monarch.

jean2579 · ‎23-03-2015

Sorry, my iPad can't spell. It should have read, when a long dead Queen was re buried.

imastawka · ‎23-03-2015

@jean2579 wrote:
I just watched it on tv here in Australia. Why wasn't. A member of the Royal Family present?
I seem to recall that, I think it was last year in Denmark when a long dead Queen was required, that the entire Danish Royal Family turned out.
It looked like a very simple ceremony for a Monarch.

Richard III was a usurper of the throne. He imprisoned the rightful Princes

in the tower and they were never heard of again.

So the story goes.

ambercat16 · ‎23-03-2015

@jean2579 wrote:
I just watched it on tv here in Australia. Why wasn't. A member of the Royal Family present?
I seem to recall that, I think it was last year in Denmark when a long dead Queen was required, that the entire Danish Royal Family turned out.
It looked like a very simple ceremony for a Monarch.

I think the actual re burial is on Thursday - maybe someone will be there then.

Personally I think he should be buried at York which was his city, his seat of power as Duke of York for most of his life not Leicester which was just where he died.

And a lot of the demonising of Richard III was done by the Tudor royals who succeeded him - their claim to the throne was much weaker than his and by rewriting history to make him out to be a bad and evil man, they strengthened their claim in the eyes of the people (much like the polititians do today)

jean2579 · ‎23-03-2015

Amazing 500 years later and nothing has changed. Sounds like Aussie politics.

electric*mayhem*band · ‎23-03-2015

Her Maj apologises, but unfortunately she will not be attending the interment on Thursday. (Although she has given the Royal Seal of Approval to Richard). She has delegated this task to be carried out by the Countess of Wessex, which is nice for her. At least it'll get her out of the house for the day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/11488562/Richard-IIIIs-reputation-rest...