Today's 'much Ado About Nothing'

[joeluke]

OTT fuss about some 500+ year old bones

http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/richard-iii-returned-to-battlefield-11363970182880

[mushroom25]

"a horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"

reckon he never said anything like - more likely he saw the lancastrian knights coming and said "oh crap".

[ichkeria]

Of course he didn't say it. That is a quote from a play :-)

If you're at all interested in history though it is a fascinating story

[boxtops]

It's a bit ado to those of us who are interested, JL - although 2.5 hours in one prog on the TV today seems rather over the top.

[boxtops]

^^ BIG ado

[woofgang]

if you aren't bothered don't watch.....

[DTCwordfan]

and why not, he was a king of England, even if he usurped it.

After all, Queenie 2 is a Saxe-Coburg - does that qualify her as a Deutsch immigrant?

[excelsior-1]

i went there to get an authentic picture of the proceedings

but it was all over before i had got my easel set up

[TWR]

I wonder what he would have thought about getting taken to the Church in a car.

[LyndaB]

He was king of England for a time. I think a royal burial is quite fitting.

[DTCwordfan]

were you well-oiled, excel?

[excelsior-1]

lol - DTC

[Stargazer]

This has probably been asked in the past but I still don't understand how anyone could have known where to look for the body and how did they know anyway because it is believed that he was just thrown into a ditch 500 years ago.
And even more incredibly it was under the very place in the car park where they made the first excavation.

[trt]

It did seem a bit OTT, and probably cost thousands, but the coffin was very plain for a King.

[woofgang]

Stargazer, loads of stuff here
http://www.le.ac.uk/richardiii/archaeology/backgroundproject.html

[ichkeria]

How they found the remains explained here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England#Discovery_of_remains

[xstitcher]

That is what heritage is all about isn't it?

[Stargazer]

Thanks Woofgang, but it is still not clear how they came to dig on that exact spot.

[excelsior-1]

stargazer. i think they stumbled across the bones accidentally while constructing a car park

[Stargazer]

No. The car park had been there a long time. Somehow they had worked out the exact spot to excavate.

[boxtops]

It seems they'd been investigating that car park - there was the remains of a ? chapel underneath it, he wasn't just tipped under the car park.....

a prof. on the TV today said they'd been looking in that area for a long time.