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[semyaza]

You can't make this stuff up. Funniest thing I've read in ages.

Mr Clarke is now talking about medieval history.

“Can we focus?” asks her Lady Justice.

“We’re still a monarchy, and it still matters… Except Harold, we don’t know where he is

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[aussiepeach]

The last line made me chuckle. If only Richard III had left a will about his remains, then everyone would know! (Unless of course he wanted to be buried in a now-extinct churchyard...)

[semyaza]

Whatever his wishes might have been on the subject I think he'd find this entire process deeply ironic.

[chaotic_binky]

I followed the link and read it all - tittering through most of it.

[semyaza]

They need to bury the Queen in Lowestoft.

[semyaza]

I can picture him doing it. That's what I would have liked as well but there's not much merit to the Plantagenet Alliance's argument at this point. Perhaps public consultations in future cases would be a good thing - assuming that they plan to dig up other kings - but this is a waste of the Courts' time. I'm immensely glad that they found him and I'll have to be satisfied with that. It's not clear that a consultation would give the result we want even if it went ahead.

[semyaza]

I hate the Tudors, too. :D Moving right along... Anything that gets people interested in history - real history, not Game of Thrones or The Tudors - is a very good thing, especially at a time when heritage sites are under threat. And I think it's good that people have a chance to make their wishes known in advance of another situation like this. Also, it would be great if more people would get excited about DNA testing and what we can learn from it.

[ellid]

This is so incredibly British. Good Lord, how did the court reporter keep a straight face? How did the justices?

[semyaza]

Perhaps they've heard it all before but I never cease to find it entertaining.

[cloudsinvenice]

Thank you so much; I am enjoying this more than anything I've read all week. We should find long-lost kings more often if it leads to this sort of reportage. Well, we should find them anyway. I'm currently reading Bernard Cornwell's series about Alfred and getting wistful about that bone fragment. (I also enjoy learning about Alfred because he very likely had Crohn's disease - thanks to Asser writing about him in some surprisingly precise anatomical detail, we know some leading things that make it more likely to be Crohn's than a bunch of other abdominal ailments. I get such a kick out of being able to speculate in such an informed way because those writings have survived after so many centuries.)

[semyaza]

I'm rather fond of Alfred and it would be nice to have him securely planted in a proper setting but I can't see that happening.

The article kept me entertained all day. I was still laughing about it at bedtime. Real life is so much funnier than comedy.