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To: SunkenCiv

He observes that the remains could belong to one of dozens of descendants of Richard’s maternal grandmother Cecily Neville, Duchess of York 1415–1495) wife of Richard Plantagenet, the 3rd Duke of York, and the mother of two kings of England had 16 children, many descendants of whom would’ve been involved in the 15th-Century fighting and perished on the battlefield.

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Try diagramming that sentence! Dang! How many online writers bother to proofread these days, I wonder.


6 posted on 04/01/2014 4:11:08 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
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To: Bigg Red

A lot of information crammed into one sentence. When I want to be that, uh, wordy, I usually rely on parentheticals to ensure obscurity. :’) Unless this guy can come up with a list of those very suspects who died at the battle, he needs to retire from being an expert on Richard III. What a blowhard.


7 posted on 04/01/2014 4:18:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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