[Prospero]

Let fall thy lance:
despair, and die!

[Perdogg]

ping

[Dog]

Broken link.

[skeeter]

His kingdom for a friggen horse.

[miss marmelstein]

10,000 people have lined the streets of Leicester. The cortege is loaded down with white roses thrown from the crowd. Better late than never, I say.

[Colorado Doug]

Try this one. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/11488368/Richard-III-returns-to-Bosworth-Field-for-final-time.html

[sauropod]

read

[mass55th]

This is a link to the BBC blog about the cortege:

Farewell to the King

His reinterment is Thursday at Leicester Cathedral.

[spokeshave]

[nickcarraway]

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

[nickcarraway]

[Kolokotronis]

“Giue me my batell axe to my hand, sett the crowne of England on my head so hye! ffor by him that shope both sea and Land, King of England this day I will dye!”

[Falconspeed]

Thank you for the news. Richard’s Catholic Book of Hours contains a nice prayer that he wrote. “I ask you, most gentle Lord Jesus Christ, to keep me, thy servant and defend me from all evil.”

Henry VIII made sure that the two-year reign of the Catholic Richard III would be forever hated. Today, the British need to reject the islamic tyranny, reject the homosexual tyranny, reject the protestant tyranny and once again welcome Catholicism.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for posting this. Great info.

The writer, however, failed composition class, apparently.

There are more, but these two are my favorites:

Despite outnumbering Henry, it was the Tudor challenger who proved victorious.

The led-lined coffin....

[onedoug]

Bosworth ping....

[CatherineofAragon]

bookmarking for later

[kalee]

For later