Richard III

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Crossposted from Tumblr:

The skeleton found in a Greyfriars carpark is that of Richard III, killed in the Battle of Bosworth.

Back in 2008 there was a discussion on HPfGU about "published" fanfic (some of that discussion ended up in Bookshop's I'm Done Explaining Why Fanfic Is Okay LJ post & comments thereto), and I rambled a bit about whether

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[ias]

It has to be Leicester, as the other's ahve said, because of the exhumation licence. However that would be in the tradition of buring disposed monarchs or pretenders in the nearest cathedral to the battle site. Not every monarch, queen or hier is buried in Westminster and I think it is rather nice to have some of the shattered about the country! For example the Black Prince is in Canterbury, Catherine of aragon in Peterborough, Edward Prince of Wales (son of Henry VI) is in Tewkesbury and so on.

Despite being a member of the Richard III Society in my youth, I do tend to think that Richard had the princes in the tower killed, or at least did not stop them being killed - it would have been a sound political decision, however I don't think he deserved the hacthet job that the Tudors did on him both literally and metaphorically. He had a rotten last two years of his live which unfortunately has completely overshadowed the rest of his career.

Tey's book is a good read but definitely not great history (although to be fair she wrote before several key sources had been discovered and she didn't look at original documents).