King Richard 111

The results of the investigations are being revealed on Time Team Channel 4 Monday 4th 21:00-22-30. Hrs for those who are interested.
I could be tempted to miss choir but I have set up to record this.

Someone please remind me!

For anyone who is interested the results of the tests on the skeleton will be made public on February 4th on the documentary Channel 4 are making.

and I've put that on the wrong one of the two threads.

we have actually had a thread on this (just for reference).

Another thread will be nice though.

Is it Phillippa Gregory who's written about this period? I don't know much about this time except from historial novels but I'm finding the reality of the dig really interesting and am looking forward to the next snippet.

Following the two Shakespearian jokes, the best one I heard was when Millets, Stratford on Avon were having a sale and allegedly put up notices to say "Now is the winter of our discount tents!"

knew!!!!! not new

(No caffeine yet) (or getting flippin' old )

I was going to ask if anyone new of a novel about him. Have just downloaded the Josephine Tey one onto my kindle. Thank you to whoever recommended it.

sounds good

Wondering if that's the book I read years ago.
I've always been a huge Richard 111 fan and Hilary Mantel's books have reinforced my dislike of the Tudors and their desperation to hang on to power, in HenryV111's case to the extent of beheading those who did not provide a son.

Nanadog
I heard on tv that the bones did show a curvature of the spine which would make his shoulders uneven.

Mine's better (from a Telegraph reader).

Would be more use to him now.

I enjoyed Josephine Tey's book too. I'd recommend it to anyone who's interested. I think I need to read it again as it was a very long time ago when I last did.

Can't claim credit for this - as the bones are in a car park: 'A Porsche, a Porsche, my kingdom for a Porsche'. (Radio 5 Live while I was just beginning to wake up this morning)

granjura and kittylester
I was born in Leicester and somehow I remember King Richard 111 being almost celebrated there. There is a statue (somewhere) and a King Richards Road. I remember my Grandma (born 1890) telling me in the mid1950s about the history of King Richards body being brought back into the town over the back of his horse. She was no scholar so I assume she learnt that at elementary school. Did you pick any of this Richard 111 pride up?

I assume it was the routed Yorkist supporters that retrieved the body or it would probably have ended up being desecrated. I think Leicester was something of a stronghold for Richard and the Yorkists.

My history learning at school stopped at the 3rd year of secondary school but I did have a taste for historical novels about the Plantagenets. No time for the usurping Tudors at all. I also read Josephine Tey "Daughter of Time"
These finds have really set me off though.

Good one 'Me duck' as we say in Leics.

That's witty!

Someone on the Telegraph webpage, in the comments bit at the end of the item, said (about what to do with his bones now) "a hearse, a hearse, my kingdom for a hearse!"

JO4 Glad you found it interesting.

He certainly had the hump on the back of the horse bmm bmm.

Richard the Third did not have a hump or spinal curvature that was a myth put about by his enemies and perpetrated by Shakespeare, so I've been led to believe. Henry the Seventh another suspect in the murder of the princes.

"After the battle Richard's body was thrown naked across a horse and taken to Leicester where it was on public display for two days before being taken to Greyfriars for interment at the Church of St Mary in the city." (from the Stoke Golding history page)

That's why they took him back kitty. Mean wasn't it!

really interesting

Just to throw a little history into the mix for anybody interested.

Look up STOKE GOLDING HISTORY.

Stoke Golding is a village just outside Market Bosworth. It has the road signs 'Home of the Tudor Dynasty'. That is because Henry Tudor was 'crowned' in the village but history books rarely mention this as a fact.Just recently Stoke Golding has been mentioned on t.v. as they now believe the battle was nearer there than Bosworth but so much has been invested in Bosworth as the battle place, which it no doubt did also have.

Sadly Crown Hill now has a small housing estate on it much to the shame of the council.

medieval

where did that a come from!