Author Topic: Looking for Richard? Guess where they found him...  (Read 685 times)

Offline Joshmaul

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Looking for Richard? Guess where they found him...
« on: February 04, 2013, 03:17:15 PM »
...buried beneath a parking lot, of all places. "Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882
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Re: Looking for Richard? Guess where they found him...
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2013, 03:39:36 PM »
Waiting for a documentary to start about it! Amazing he has finally been found. There is push to give him a full state funeral but doubt it will happen

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Re: Looking for Richard? Guess where they found him...
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2013, 03:54:02 PM »
I enjoyed watching the Press Conference this morning! What made it particularly enjoyable was that I was watching it via live stream on the BBC Website and at the point where the Channel 4 exec started to speak, the transmission cut out and a message popped up saying "This Broadcast has ended!"

Well played BBC!
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Re: Looking for Richard? Guess where they found him...
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2013, 01:31:14 PM »
I didn't see any news yesterday about it as I don't have internet access at work. I knew the documentary was going to be shown.

Amazing, so remarkable. Seeing a chapter in history being closed somewhat.

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Re: Looking for Richard? Guess where they found him...
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2013, 02:41:02 PM »
Waiting for a documentary to start about it! Amazing he has finally been found. There is push to give him a full state funeral but doubt it will happen

The fact he's gonna get a funeral at all is remarkable, considering his reputation's been dragged through the mud by five hundred years of propaganda and revisionism, largely started by his successor.
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Re: Looking for Richard? Guess where they found him...
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2013, 03:45:49 PM »
I agree Josh. Love him or hate him he was a King of England, and deserves a proper funeral to reflect his status. I mean he was the last monarch to die in battle so come on!

If the Tudor propaganda is true or not is for people themselves to decided but it isn't every day a lost monarch is dug up so I think full advantage of the situation should be taken.

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Re: Looking for Richard? Guess where they found him...
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2013, 06:14:32 PM »
[sarcasm]Might as well make some money from it.  Dumb foreigners will buy anything if it has something to do with "royal" and "British" on it :P[/sarcasm]

Meh.

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