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Is the Royal Family coming around to accepting Richard III….?

Well, I don’t know if the above heading is hopeful or not. If you go to this link https://royalcentral.co.uk/royal-news/did-buckingham-palace-just-give-the-thumbs-up-to-a-very-difficult-duke-203309/ you’ll find that its heading is Did Buckingham Palace just give the thumbs up to a very difficult duke? Said difficult duke is, of course, our fifteenth-century Richard, Duke of Gloucester.

The present day Richard, Duke of Gloucester, is patron of the Richard III Society, attended the king’s reinterment and has visited the Richard III Visitor Centre. He’s done right by his namesake, who’s had a relentlessly lousy time of it since Bosworth. The condemnation has been constant and cruel….and all without any proof that Richard III did anything wrong or evil at all! He’s been blamed for child murder without any evidence that the two boys were ever done away with. But that’s another story, of course.

Many of us were dismayed that Queen Elizabeth herself didn’t attend the reinterment, or at least send the then Prince of Wales. We’re also still disappointed that the contents of that pesky urn in Westminster Abbey aren’t permitted to be re-examined with today’s forensic advantages. That would certainly pinpoint whose remains they certainly weren’t!

The urn in Westminster Abbey that purports to contain the bones of the “Princes in the Tower” https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52276804055_9f95aa4a93_z.jpg

If the Royal Central article’s conjecture proves to be right, it won’t be before time. But I have to wonder if now, after all that his good name and honour have suffered, Richard will deign to be approved. He should be the one considering whether or not any acceptance takes place, and let’s face it, after all they haven’t done to support him, his opinion of his royal successors probably isn’t very flattering.

But I think he’d shake hands with his present-day namesake.

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  1. Christine Kutlar-kreutz Avatar
    Christine Kutlar-kreutz

    Jeder der die Zeichnung vom Tower aus dem 16. Jahrhundert kennt weiß, daß die Gebeine in der Abtei nicht die der “Prinzen” sein können. Nicht ohne Grund wird nie gezeigt, wo genau die Gebeine gefunden wurden und wie der Tower mit dem “Inner Ward” einmal ausgesehen hat. Als ich diese Zeichnung das erste Mal gesehen habe war ich so schockiert, daß ich an eine Fake Zeichnung geglaubt habe. Bis ich eine Doku über den Tower gesehen habe, in der Tracy Bormann genau diese Zeichnung aus einer Schublade holt und zur Seite legt. Als Kurator des Tower kennt sie die Zeichnung, stellt sich hin und lügt mit verzweifelt aufgerissen en Augen in die Kamera. Ich war fassungslos.

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  2. Anne Ayres Avatar
    Anne Ayres

    Ms “Starbuck” should be corrected on at least two things:

    a) The reconstruction of Richard’s face is NOT a waxwork, it is a scientific reconstruction of his face based on the exact dimensions and positioning of the bones in his rediscovered skull. It was made by Caroline Wiklinson professor of craniofacial identification at the University of Dundee at he time.

    b) The car park was not a public one with “a machine that needed coins” – it was simply the private staff car park at the rear of the local Social Services office.

    Furthermore, I am at a loss to see how she could possibly mention the discovery and reinterment without referring at least in passing, to the research and determination of Philippa Langley, without which the archaeolgical dig would never have taken place.

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    Anne Ayres

    Ms “Starbuck” should be corrected on at least two things:

    a) The reconstruction of Richard’s face is NOT a waxwork, it is a scientific reconstruction of his face based on the exact dimensions and positioning of the bones in his rediscovered skull. It was made by Caroline Wiklinson professor of craniofacial identification at the University of Dundee at the time.

    b) The car park was not a public one with “a machine that needed coins” – it was simply the private staff car park at the rear of the local Social Services office.

    Furthermore, I am at a loss to see how she could possibly mention the discovery and reinterment without referring at least in passing, to the research and determination of Philippa Langley, without which the archaeolgical dig would never have taken place.

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