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heidi8

Richard III

Feb 04, 2013 14:24

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 ( Read more... )

josephine tey, daughter of time, huzzah for reading, richard iii

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ginsu February 4 2013, 19:38:10 UTC

wherever they set as his final resting place. Will he be brought to York, or to Westminster?

Leicester Cathedral is what I've read, so neither one.

shocolate February 4 2013, 22:05:57 UTC

He'll be buried in Leicester Cathedral next year.

The exhumation permission specified being reburied in the nearest consecrated ground.

heidi8 February 5 2013, 00:52:25 UTC

AWESOME! But the Queen could overrule that, or Parliament, if they wish to do so? Or was the permission granted with Leicester Cathedral being the planned internment?

I know where I'm visiting the next time I'm in the UK (or the next next time).

shocolate February 5 2013, 07:28:21 UTC

Leicester cathedral specified. It's literally across one road from where they found him.

And he certainly shouldn't be in Westminster Abbey, and have to spend eternity with bloody Henry Tudor!!

Unless they demolish Tudor's horribly ostentatious, nouveau riche chapel...

serena64 February 5 2013, 10:47:19 UTC

I'm intrigued by the man they compared his dna with. He's a direct descendant of Richard III's sister. I'd quite like to find out a bit more about that.

amaterasu February 5 2013, 16:47:10 UTC

This is the third time I've heard "The Daughter of Time" mentioned in two days; may have to bump that one up the reading queue.

Also, if you've not read it, I highly recommend Sharon Kay Penman's "The Sunne in Splendour," a lovingly-researched piece of pro-Richardism (it's almost a little TOO kind to him).

ias February 6 2013, 10:22:43 UTC

Sharon Kay Penman's "The Sunne in Splendour,"

It is, however, a very big, fat book unlike Daughter of Time.

ias February 6 2013, 10:34:13 UTC

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 ( ... )