Richard the Third

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hang on a sec. Why are we revering a child murderer?

Allegedly.

Admittedly with considerable circumstantial evidence - such that, if I were Bbm, I wouldn't be quite so keen to let him aware that I was a relative!)

[french frank]

The point has been made on a Catholic website that there is no distinction between Catholic and Protestant in the understanding of Christian 'consecrated ground' - the present Leicester cathedral would have been the Catholic foundation of St Martin's in Richard's time, anyway. As long as the place of reinterment is blessed by a Catholic priest [it says here ] that is in accordance with Canon Law, since the formal burial rites have already taken place. Requiem Masses were held in Catholic churches - they don't have to take place along with the reinterment.

[John Wright]

Turns out Benedict Cumberbatch, who is reading new poem from Carol Ann Duffy is Richard III's third cousin 16 times removed - another famous relative for BBM?

And there's more, I heard Richard Buckley on TV say he estimated at least 1 million people alive today are related to Richard III


Richard Buckley, Project Manager and lead archaeologist on the Greyfriars dig and Director of University of Leicester Archaeological Services

[french frank]

Hang on a sec. Why are we revering a child murderer?

I don't think he would have personally carried out any murder. And even real murderers who were executed would have been buried 'reverently'!

[P. G. Tipps]

Hang on a sec. Why are we revering a child murderer?

You can choose what version of history you prefer and nobody's forced to 'revere' anyone.

After all, we are still told by the historians about 'Good Queen Bess' as if she had never brutally executed her own cousin, the main rival to her throne.

Take your pick as to who were the 'goodies' and 'baddies' all those centuries ago!

[P. G. Tipps]

And there's more, I heard Richard Buckley on TV say he estimated at least 1 million people alive today are related to Richard III


Richard Buckley, Project Manager and lead archaeologist on the Greyfriars dig and Director of University of Leicester Archaeological Services

Yes, they seem to be cropping up all over the place right now ...

[Nick Armstrong]

Hang on a sec.

Allegedly.

(A libel lawyer opines )

Is it just me or does anyone else have the vague feeling that this is all the biggest hoax of all time and that at some point in the future everyone's going to be laughing at the "Great Richard III Hoax" as we do now about the USA taking to the hills due to Orson Welles's 'War of the Worlds' broadcast...?

[BBMmk2]

May HM King Richard III now RIP and be with his maker.

The whole of today's proceedings, well this morning, I thought, went rather well and befitting too.

The actor Benedict(what's is name!), could be a relative as also John and Peter Snow(rather distant, as RIII was a second cousin to John of Gaunt.

[Nick Armstrong]

The actor Benedict(what's is name!), could be a relative as also John and Peter Snow (rather distant, as RIII was a second cousin to John of Gaunt.

Yes them, and all the others too Bbm:

I heard Richard Buckley on TV say he estimated at least 1 million people alive today are related to Richard III

I hope you and Mrs Bbm have got somewhere to put them all come Christmastime and the family get-together!

[Flosshilde]

that 1 million probably includes a USA president or two - the ones that aren't desperately trying to prove they're descended from Irish peasants, that is.

[BBMmk2]

Yes them, and all the others too Bbm:


I hope you and Mrs Bbm have got somewhere to put them all come Christmastime and the family get-together!

I better get a whip round somehow to fit them all in. What about Buck House?

[Serial_Apologist]

The actor Benedict(what's is name!)

Cummerbund.

[Serial_Apologist]

What about Buck House?

You might have a job, fitting Buckingham Palace into your back yard, BBM.

[Nick Armstrong]

I better get a whip round somehow to fit them all in. What about Buck House?

I shall be scanning my post eagerly after the summer for signs of an embossed invitation to lunch from the SW1A postal district!!

[teamsaint]

I shall be scanning my post eagerly after the summer for signs of an embossed invitation to lunch from the SW1A postal district!!

I like the idea of BBM inviting board members round to BH for pre Proms drinks .

Not that he has, yet.

Better bloody use for the place than......oh no, better stop now.......