Thanks Tennessee Nana.
Posted on 03/22/2016 3:16:40 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Credit: University of Leicester. This model of King Richard III’s grave shows the king’s remains in-situ shortly after their discovery by University of Leicester archaeologists beneath a car park in Leicester in 2012. The model has been generated using Agisoft’s Photoscan from photographs taken during the excavation. If you would like to learn more about the search for King Richard III please visit www.le.ac.uk/richardiii.
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Not a very kingly grave.
Ain’t this the dead guy you get all moist about?
Miss marmelstein as I recall thinks he did not kill the boys
For the record I’m very fond of her
OK then.
I ain’t.
At least I think thats how this went down.
Didn’t Elizabeth I have a crooked spine (scoliosis ?) too? Must have been a family thing.
Europe’s royal families: mountain folk in purple.
Hill Williams?
The amazing story is that an amateur historian discovered the site. She convinced a local university professor who got permission for and organized the dig. Saw a show on it just a few weeks ago.
Thanks Tennessee Nana.
The Princes were killed.
Who had a motive to do the deed?
Who had the power and opportunity to carry it out?
Looking bad for Richard III.
However, The Tudors were able to write the history books and send certain evidence down the memory hole. Consider what Barack Obama has been able to do with much less power that belonged to the Tudors.
It’s a great story. She had so much faith his body was there.
The weirdest thing is that he is holding this nail in his right hand.
Elizabeth I wasn’t related to Richard III.
My point was they were always marrying their children off to one another to cement alliances.
And I remember a reference by the Earl of Essex, Liz’s young gigilo, to her “crooked carcass.”
Are you sure?
I may be wrong (again), but don’t they allow first cousin marriage in England today?
There is no evidence that he killed those boys. We don’t know what happened to them. I believe they were taken out of the country to the king’s sister in Burgundy but that’s just my opinion.
The two aren't really related. Richard was the last of the Plantagenets. The Tudors' ancestral connection to the Lancastrians was tenuous at best.
Elizabeth I was indeed related to Richard the Third. Her grandfather was Edward the Fourth, Richard’s brother. But no actual person by the name Plantagenet survived Henry 8th.
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