Richard the Third

[Petrushka]

No, no, no. Having arranged for the transfer of the body of Henry VI (for whose murder in the tower of London he is 'credited' with relaying the order) from Chertsey Abbey to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, it is only fitting that he join his brother Edward, who ordered the murder, in that same resting place.

Well, you can see why a definitive decision needs to be made. All the competing bids need to be considered by ministers and a team of historians perhaps with royal input. Leaving the matter in the hands of Leicester University looks like a bad decision.

[Flosshilde]

Just spread him around & make everyone happy. It won't be long before he's being credited with miracles & the next pope makes him a saint.

[BBMmk2]

I still think that leicester is more appropriate. Akthough York and Westminster Abbey have strong, very strong claims.

[amateur51]

Just spread him around & make everyone happy. It won't be long before he's being credited with miracles & the next pope makes him a saint.

[Nick Armstrong]

I still think that leicester is more appropriate. Akthough York and Westminster Abbey have strong, very strong claims.

The Plantagenets have won the first skirmish in the War of the Bones, securing the High Court's permission for a formal Judicial Review of the decision to bury the old boy properly in Leicester...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23726011

[Vile Consort]

It'll be a bit of a bugger for Leicester Cathedral if the York contingent wins: they are already re-ordering the cathedral and having a tomb constructed at a cost of £1m, apparently.

[salymap]

It'll be a bit of a bugger for Leicester Cathedral if the York contingent wins: they are already re-ordering the cathedral and having a tomb constructed at a cost of £1m, apparently.

Goodness, Ithought it was settled ages ago. Don't things run on ?

[Suffolkcoastal]

Any comments on the recent programme on Elizabeth Woodville and the suggestion from Philippa Gregory which she incorporates into 'The White Queen' that Margaret Beaufort via the Duke of Buckingham was actually behind the murder of the young princes (or possibly prince and imposter)?

[BBMmk2]

Goodness, Ithought it was settled ages ago. Don't things run on ?

I good excuse for me to go to Leicester Cathedral! I also work with someone who is descended from Edward I!

[Anna]

I good excuse for me to go to Leicester Cathedral! I also work with someone who is descended from Edward I!

Blimey BBM, you two with your John of Gaunt/Plantagenet connections and your Edward I friend must be related to most of the Crowned Heads of Europe!! Shame you both missed out on the inheritences of land and monies!! Wrong side of the blanket was it?

Seriously, I think he belongs to York because of the endowments he did there and other historical facts, if Leicester have jumped the gun and spent money in anticipation then that's too bad and rather foolish of them. (I once, trying to get through Leicester from Newark to Wales, because of major road works on the ring road, circled it at least four times, so I'm not fond of the town but I do like York a lot) I'm afraid I haven't watched The White Queen so cannot comment but I don't think Richard III was as black as he was painted by Shakespeare which, to be honest, was just current propagdanda

[salymap]

I go with that detective story - what was it called? The bedridden policemen decides Richard was innocent, sending all sround him to check out his clues. We don't know th truth and Shakespeare was out for a good plot, as
Anna says.

[Historian]

I go with that detective story - what was it called? The bedridden policemen decides Richard was innocent, sending all sround him to check out his clues. We don't know th truth and Shakespeare was out for a good plot, as
Anna says.

'The Daughter of Time', by Josephine Tey (truth being the offspring in question).

[BBMmk2]

Blimey BBM, you two with your John of Gaunt/Plantagenet connections and your Edward I friend must be related to most of the Crowned Heads of Europe!! Shame you both missed out on the inheritences of land and monies!! Wrong side of the blanket was it?

Seriously, I think he belongs to York because of the endowments he did there and other historical facts, if Leicester have jumped the gun and spent money in anticipation then that's too bad and rather foolish of them. (I once, trying to get through Leicester from Newark to Wales, because of major road works on the ring road, circled it at least four times, so I'm not fond of the town but I do like York a lot) I'm afraid I haven't watched The White Queen so cannot comment but I don't think Richard III was as black as he was painted by Shakespeare which, to be honest, was just current propagdanda

Well, my ancestors were born the right side of the blankets. The trouble was, one of John of Gaunt's offspring murdered another nobleman, and the king at the time(was it RII?), conviscated his lands, title, etc and he had to move out! He eventually settled(I think), in Norfolk, and eventually the family moved again(after a few hundred years), to the Faversham area of Kent.

[salymap]

'The Daughter of Time', by Josephine Tey (truth being the offspring in question).

Thanks Historian, a good yarn but the print of paper-backs is too small for me now

[french frank]

Thanks Historian, a good yarn but the print of paper-backs is too small for me now

Large print available from 0.66p. (with shipping £5.73).