BTW, was the horse found?
Possibly......
Posted on 02/04/2013 9:09:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Edited on 02/04/2013 9:44:16 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled.
Now things are looking up for King Richard III. Scientists announced Monday that they had found the monarch's 528-year-old remains under a parking lot in the city of Leicester
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I believe they found text that said he'd been reburied in the choir loft of the Greyfriar's Abbey that was on the site at the time. What's interesting, is that they were able to locate the remains of the Abbey, then pinpoint where the choir loft had been...in the parking lot!
BTW, was the horse found?
Possibly......
I thought it was “My kingdom for a nose”?
Oh wait, that was Jerry.
“a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies on his way to the throne”
1) So this tells us that a perfect burial for a Usurper is a Parking Lot.
2) Trail of bodies? hmmm seals, top brass generals okayyy
So has anyone notice if our usurper is a hunchback?
Can't say that i have but I did notice a bit of a belly in the "Skeet shooting" photo.
I am willing to say that that is close enough for me.
Richard III invented the concept of bail - whereas his treacherous successor Henry VII invented the Star Chamber.
The world would have been a better place without the Tudors.
Sweettt
If they get around to it
How about find out mystery of what happen to his nephew Prince of Tower
Did Thomas Moore describe Richard III as a hunchback? Seems he was right, doesn’t that lend more credence to his story of Richard III as the murderer of the Princes?
Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature,
Deform’d, unfinish’d, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up-
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them-
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,
And descant on my own deformity.
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain this fair well-spoken days,
I am determine’d to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasure of these days.
~Shakespeare~
I remember that song.
“they paved Richard III and put up a parking lot...”
What kind of person hogs a parking space for 500 years any way?
Kings - Steely Dan
Now they lay his body down
Sad old men who run this town
I still recall the way
He led the charge and saved the day
Blue blood and rain
I can hear the bugle playin’
[Chorus:]
We seen the last of Good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to Good King John
While he plundered far and wide
All his starving children cried
And though we sung his fame
We all went hungry just the same
He meant to shine
To the end of the line
We seen the last of Good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to Good King John
ping
Even Elizabeth I?.......
What kind of person hogs a parking space for 500 years any way?
These elites, I tell ya!!
Henry VII set up an enormous campaign of state-sponsored vilification against Richard III after his death. This is because his own claim to the throne was very tenuous.
Many believe that Henry VII had the princes killed just before Titulus Regius was signed into law.
Titulus Regius gave Elizabeth of York (Henry's wife) a claim to the throne - and so gave Henry VII a claim to the throne. But at the same time it gave the Princes in the Tower a better claim to the throne than Henry VII - he had a very good reason to kill them.
I’m no great fan of that wooden-toothed fanatic.
She used to starve the crews of her Navy ships so that they would have to desert the ships in harbor - which meant that she didn’t have to pay them. The famous victory over the Armada was no thanks to her - she just took credit after the fact.
A modern context might be: Obama’s ‘victory’ in killing bin Laden. It was very much despite Obama, not because of him.
Henry may have had a motive, but did he have the means? As I understand it, Richard became the princes’ guardian when Edward VI, their father, died and remained their guardian until he was crowned king. During that time when they disappeared he was, apparently, in charge of the Tower. Why didn’t Richard dispel the suspicions about him by just producing the live princes or thier remins and a legitimate explanation for their deaths? Edward VII and his younger borther were Edward VI’s sons and heirs apparent before Richard, giving Richard a motive to kill them. Thus, it appears their disappearences lead straight to Richard’s door.
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