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On look north. Honestly do these people not have more important things to get upset by than where a long-dead king is buried? Cockwombles. ( ironing I'm upset by them I guess!)
Sick to death of hearing about it. People getting dressed up for the occasion too, WTFF!
as a king of England, surely Westminster Abbey is the correct final resting place?
That would then kill thst ridiculous argument
My thoughts are with his relatives, funerals are always difficult times.
He lived in brutal times. I.e brutal for his two 9&12yr old nephews.
Yep, agreed, people and their priorities can be seriously warped.
and lol at Hora being sucked in by the Daily Globe click bait reporting.
did they play this at the funeral?
Errr
You mean history.
I used to do the Wars of the Roses in re-enactment. I've met some of the Ricardian loons - and some of them really are bonkers.
I've played Lord Stanley at a Living History/Murder-mystery event at Skipton Castle & had a batty old woman attempt to hit me with her bloody handbag!
A few yrs ago we did the Bosworth event, & the guy playing Richard just happened to be German (roles are dependent on availability, skill level, kit level etc) This chap competes at International Jousting competitions so not only is he a fantastic horseman but he has the requistite level of top end armour and kit ( tens of thousands of pounds worth).
He had to make a speech before the battle & the throat mike linked to the loudspeaker system failed, so he had to really shout. Of course, as he shouted his German accent got stronger (excellent speaker of English) and some of the Ricardian loons had the gall to make an official complaint to the organisers because we "didn't use an Englishman, its an insult to Richard". 🙄
Good job they couldn't hear my battle commander walking behind us muttering "ein reich, ein volk, ein Richard!" and singing "tomorrow belongs to me.." 😆
I was sectioned with one of the key players in this Richard III reinterment. I can confirm that they are truly nuts.
Pik'nmix, if you were both sectioned, doesn't that make you as nuts as each other???
Honestly do these people not have more important things to get upset by than where a long-dead king is buried?
Clearly they haven't heard about Zayn leaving One Direction yet.
Or indeed "Clarksongate"!
[i]People getting dressed up for the occasion too, WTFF![/i]
I know right! Some of them where helmets and gloves, and knee armour, and some even have pads on their elbows, strange little brightly coloured rucksacks, all to go a ride a bike...they look like kids, grown adults as well!!
madness....
Bravo nickc, glass houses and all that.
He'd never have lost the crown if he'd been on a 650b horse, makes the king come alive!
What about cosplay in woods- saw some interesting youtube clips and thought 'mentalists!!'
You re-enactment types are crazy 😉
[i] if he'd been on a 650b horse, makes the king come alive![/i]
"An inner tube, an inner tube, my kingdom for an inner tube"
"Now is winter of our hardtail, made glorious by this 5010, all of a Blur fashioned with these preponderant circumrevolutions "
I hear some of the people involved in the Richard miracle are going for the remains of Henry I next, reputed to be buried in Reading Abbey.
If all this dead celeb chasing is useful to raise funds to do some proper archaeology, all well and good. Otherwise it just seems bit low rent Indian Jones.
Mind you - The ex-head of the national trust has just been on radio 4 talking about rebuilding Stonehenge. I suppose it all fits nicely into the the plan of making the UK a huge tourist theme park.
He'd never have lost the crown if he'd been on a 650b horse, makes the king come alive!
Zombie Richard III!
some of the Ricardian loons had the gall to make an official complaint to the organisers because we "didn't use an Englishman, its an insult to Richard".
They should have said they'd uphold the complaint and sack the actor if Richard himself complaint. Then reminded them of his lasting modern legacy, his entry into rhyming slag.
I live in Leicester and I'm sick to death of being told how amazing this is for everyone that lives in Leicester, we should all be proud blah blah blah
I couldn't give two ****s tbh!
Edit: living in Leicester is pretty shit and I'd be out of here in a heart beat if it wasn't for work!
Here is the sermon from yesterday's service...I think
If all this dead celeb chasing is useful to raise funds to do some proper archaeology, all well and good. Otherwise it just seems bit low rent Indian Jones.
Is it just me that thinks that this is all a bit weird? Getting all het up about the remnants of someone who carked it 500 years ago? There can't be all that much left and I doubt he cares himself any more. If they'd left it much longer he'd have been two pints of unleaded.
Pik'nmix, if you were both sectioned, doesn't that make you as nuts as each other???
There is a sliding scale of nuttiness within the sectioned community, I was up there don't get me wrong, they however were stratosphericly crackers.
richard the third - turd
hopefully replaced by charles the third - if the queen ever kharks it.
Phillippa Gregory irritates me intensely, she styles herself as a serious historian yet she is merely a writer of fantasy fiction. Admittedly a successful writer, but fantasy fiction all the same.
She isn't liked much at Bosworth for her strutting around as though she thinks she's royalty.
Why did the CofE preside over the ceremony yesterday shouldn't it have been the Catholics
I believe it was an 'inter faith' service taking elements from both Catholic and CofE.
Look on the bright side - before they dug him up nobody had any reason to go to Leicester but now the town has a visitor centre so tourism will boom. The Victorians were a good century ahead of Leicester when they invented whisky, kilts, bagpipes and Scottishness and then topped it off with Nessie; without which nobody would have any reason to go to Scotland.
Hah! That's the root of all the ****eriness from the 'York' faction - the tourist cash.
Its not like York is short of tourist attractions so I for one am glad that Leicester has Richard now. After all it was Leicester archeologists who found his remains.
Not that I'm hugely bothered either way, but Richard was killed near Leicester and had no known attachment to the area. In comparison, he was the much-loved 'lord of the North' and his favourite home was Middleham. After his death the people of York were the only ones to publicly bemoan the fact. He was a Northerner in spirit, for sure.
Those people on the news queueing up, then filing past a coffin of a bloke who died 500 years ago. Seriously....WTF? When they interviewed them, they reminded me of that peculiarly cringeworthy type of middle class Englishness that you always see on Henman Hill, Or Murrays Monkey, or whatever its called this year, at Wimbledon. That just have you wincing with the embarrassment that this is how people round the world will be seeing us. The freaks!
C'mon [s]Tim[/s] Dickie!!!
Not that I'm hugely bothered either way, but Richard was killed near Leicester and had no known attachment to the area
There was a connection with the area, Leicester was a big supporter of the house of York and Richard had been there numerous times ....‘from my castle of Leicester.’
Besides, there were many other reason that Leicester was given the honor, and they have done so in a great fashion Imho.
The Yorkists are a biter bunch though, and always good for a laugh. This is the Cathedral that had maintained throughout that they 'did not have the room' for their beloved monarch.
He's in Leicester, he's buried and It was done fabulously, leave it at that.
Keith Vaz was excellent on C4 news. The wars of the roses were all about where to get the best curry apparently...
He was not shy to say it was all about tourism.
Everyone knows that Richard III got his head lopped off after a classic case of mistaken identity....
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To quote prince Edmund, "oh my god, it's uncle Richard".
Oh and to all those bad-mouthing Leicester, leave it out. Leicester speaks for itself in that regard. No outside help required.