Richard III being laid to rest tomorrow

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/MO8rRbw.jpg?1

Attention all Richards: the much-maligned king's remains are to be laid to rest in Leicester Cathedral tomorrow, Thursday 26 March.

Already the scramble to cash in on this incredible event has been described as a "money-grabbing pantomime" and includes such offers as a "Richard The Third Haircut" at £25. Tango589 will no doubt be first in the chair...

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Didn't he want to be interred in York?

[Torplexed]

Didn't he want to be interred in York?

I guess anything beats being interred in a car park. :D

[Eichhörnchen]

I've had a quick look through the various articles online relating to the tussle over where he should be buried; local historians say that whereas he had no connection with Leicester other than it being the place of his death, he spent most of his adult life in York but there is "no evidence" that he wanted to be buried there either.

[Oberon]

York would have been much preferable to Leicester. Nothing against Leicester but York was his stomping ground, I mean he's not known as Richard of Leicester, he's Richard of York.
But, like Torplexed says, either place is better than a car park. :yep:

[Jimbuna]

York would have been much preferable to Leicester. Nothing against Leicester but York was his stomping ground, I mean he's not known as Richard of Leicester, he's Richard of York.
But, like Torplexed says, either place is better than a car park. :yep:

Rgr that :yep:

[August]

Isn't there some kind of official Royal burial ground, maybe at Westminster Abbey?

[CCIP]

As noted on Wiki on the topic,

The University of Leicester's initial plan was to have Richard's body interred in Leicester Cathedral, in keeping with British legal norms which hold that Christian burials excavated by archaeologists should be reburied in the nearest consecrated ground to the original grave. This had been a condition of the licence granted by the Ministry of Justice to exhume any human remains found during the excavation. The present British Royal Family made no claim on the remains – Queen Elizabeth II was reportedly consulted but rejected the idea of a royal burial

[Aktungbby]

http://i.imgur.com/MO8rRbw.jpg?1

Attention all Richards: the much-maligned king's remains are to be laid to rest in Leicester Cathedral tomorrow, Thursday 26 March.

Already the scramble to cash in on this incredible event has been described as a "money-grabbing pantomime" and includes such offers as a "Richard The Third Haircut" at £25. Tango589 will no doubt be first in the chair...
Already noted: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=2300085#post2300085 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=2300085#post2300085):Kaleun_Goofy : Moderator Please merge! with Neal's White Queen thread; after all it's the Yorkist thread and this is a happy Yorkist ending.:D

[Wolferz]

Why not crush his bones into dust and spread him all over GB?:hmmm:

That way, everyone gets a little Dick III.

[Oberon]

Good point CCIP, and I guess the last word must be had by Richard III himself
Spoof account Richard III tweets (https://twitter.com/richard_third/status/581044343294861313): For the LAST time. I don't want to be buried in York, It floods, I'm too old for any more COLD water baths, and there's rubbish curry houses

[Jimbuna]

Good point CCIP, and I guess the last word must be had by Richard III himself

He did go on to say "I hear there is a half decent model shop at Monk Bar only twenty yards from my museum so I can always look forward to meeting Jimbuna and the Quality Street Gang" :03:

[STEED]

Why not crush his bones into dust and spread him all over GB?:hmmm:

That way, everyone gets a little Dick III.

Your have the environmental agency after you for pollution.

[Wolferz]

Your have the environmental agency after you for pollution.

Well, steer clear of the streams and water sheds.
Any way, it's just calcium. Not a pollutant. :O::03:

Going by that logic...
Where he was buried before should be labeled a toxic waste dump.:Kaleun_Sick::timeout:

[Schroeder]

I don't get the hype about this. The guy has been dead for 500 years so why is everyone so excited as if a lost family member was found?:doh:

[Eichhörnchen]

I think he got exhumed and thereby won the 15th Century "last person to post" thread.

[Tango589]

:haha:

[swamprat69er]

I think it is just another way to piss taxpayers money up against the wall. He was already burried. Why exhume the stiff just to bury it all over again?

[Torplexed]

I think it is just another way to piss taxpayers money up against the wall. He was already burried. Why exhume the stiff just to bury it all over again?

I'm sure whatever government agency eventually digs up Jimmy Hoffa is taking notes. Famous stiffs = $$$.

[Jeff-Groves]

I'm sure whatever government agency eventually digs up Jimmy Hoffa is taking notes. Famous stiffs = $$$.

They can't dig up Hoffa. He was shoved through a wood chipper.

[Aktungbby]

He was put into a chrome tank!:stare:http://cdn.instructables.com/FFL/9DHJ/HH2VZLI5/FFL9DHJHH2VZLI5.MEDIUM.jpg

[swamprat69er]

There are lots of theories about Hoffa, but the one(s) that know aren't talking.

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/NivH9Oj.jpg

"Tell us more: he doth sound like a passing Top Man..."

[clive bradbury]

Richard was Duke of Gloucester - not York.

Also - it wasn't a matter of exhuming him - it was essentially archeology. No one knew the body was his (or even there at all!) until the car park was excavated and forensic testing applied. It was not a matter of digging him up from a known location and reburying him at all.

The reburial has been funded by private donations - not taxpayers money.

The 'hype' is because it is history and archeology. One example - apologists for Richard have long been arguing that the hunchback was a Shakespearean/Tudor invention to discredit him. They were very upset when the skeleton was found to have scolosis. A good example of solid evidence to contradict written records/propaganda. I don't see that as 'hype', personally - just an example of good archeology at work. Admittedly, being a historian I would say that, wouldn't I?

[Aktungbby]

I don't get the hype about this. The guy has been dead for 500 years so why is everyone so excited as if a lost family member was found?:doh:

HEY some of us 'Good King Dickon' fanatics can't get enough! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIBxejaZ7w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIBxejaZ7w) JEEZE! as a winophile from Napa, I wonder how my own ribs R lookin??!! :()1:'' Hey Aktung.... it's a necro thread!''.... Yeah but it's still a very necro topic!:O: Oddly, given his personal ensign: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Copper-alloy_boar_mount_from_the_Thames_foreshore_%28Lond on%29.jpg/220px-Copper-alloy_boar_mount_from_the_Thames_foreshore_%28Lond on%29.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copper-alloy_boar_mount_from_the_Thames_foreshore_(London ).jpg) Ol Dick III was livin' a little too 'high on the hog'!

[Eichhörnchen]

Very interesting TV documentary... will watch later