Richard III

A tomb has been prepared for him in Leicester for a long time - and Leicester people put a tremendous amount of effort to find him - so in Leicester he should stay. And what is 'wrong' with Leicester Mischief - I certainly love the place and the county (just come back )

Sounds like my aunt who had already bought a bridesmaid dress for her daughter for my wedding and was upset when I didn't want her as a bridesmaid!

She took her harp to the party, but nobody asked her to play.

I also understand that the original exhumation license stipulated the remains should be buriedleicester

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Richard the third gets my vote for being a seriously maligned king. Was he a hunchback? Probably. Did that count? Possibly. Is the Earl of Oxford aka W. Shakespeare guilty of creating a bad press for the guy? Oh most definately. Why? Oh dear oh dear, do not get me going on politics. If only the white rose had won.... England would be free of the dreaded Lancastrians and their Hannoverian substitutes. Bury him, PLEASE, in York Cathedral and Requiescat in pacem.

As for Hannoverian upstart making a decision: oh dear no.

Richard the third is a seriously maligned king. Was he hunchback? Most likely. Did he suffer from not being photogenic? Oh I think so. Did the Earl of Oxford (aka W Shakespeare) afford him a bead press? Undoubtably. Did her murder the "princes in the tower"? Personally no. But then Henry gets blamed for the murder of Thomas a Becket - will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest.

Oh that the dammned Lancastrians had lost. Would that the house of York had rulked. How different life might have been. Please send his bones home to York, whence he came and whence he belongs. Do please set up a shrine in Leicester. And Richard... Requiescat in Pacem......

As a footnote: who are the dead that you most would like to meet in the after life? For me Richard the third is high up the list.

PS sorry about the mishaps with the keyboard: I got a bit steamed up!

When I hear the name "Richard the Third" I can't help remembering Ronnie Barker's monologue about someone finding a small Richard the Third on the pavement, picking it up and moving it to one side etc....

Sorry, not relevant but it keeps coming back into my brain.

Could just as well be a Henry or an Edward of course.

I'd quite like to meet Jack the Ripper in the afterlife _ just to see who he was!

Byron!

Mad, bad and dangerous to know – applies to both the last two posts.

My ancestress Elizabeth Blackwell

Literally your ancestor Galen – and how appropriate would that be – or spiritual ancestor?

Why the sudden interest from the folk of York? If Richard III was so highly thought of there, why no efforts made to locate his body? Fair play to the city of Leicester. The research and identification process was carried out in Leicester and it's only right that Leicester should benefit. Anyway, "finders keepers" and "possession is 9/10ths of the law" should make the decision very easy.

From the terrible Channel 4 documentary about the discovery, I got the impression that the whole thing had been funded and organised by the Richard 111 society which is Yorkist.

Direct quote from Philippa Langley who instigated the project: "I am incredibly grateful to the University of Leicester for funding the project in association with the Richard III Society, and to Leicester City Council for agreeing to facilitate it and allow us to do all this excavation work."

This suggests that the Richard III Society provided only some, albeit possibly the largest portion, of the funding.

I'm very torn now. My Yorkist sympathies say take him back to Yorkshire but, to be fair, Leicester have put in a lot of money and effort and perhaps he should be left there. (Don't tell anyone on Facebook that I've said that )

I bet that Richard would never have believed that we would still be arguing about him over 500 years later!

Apparently he and his wife to be grew up at Raby Castle near here. At least they haven't claimed his bits back yet.