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“….A sapling from an oak tree in the grounds of King Richard III’s birthplace has been planted in the place where he died….” So begins the BBC article you’ll find at https://rb.gy/n5r3y4. And the photograph above is of the ‘mother tree’ at Fotheringhay, near Peterborough, from which the sapling has been ‘born’.

The great oak tree is 600 years old, which, if 600 years is exact, means it was in turn was ‘born’ in around 1425.  Richard III himself came into the world in 1452, so perhaps he saw it as a sapling not much larger than the one that has now been planted in his honour at Bosworth Field, at the site of his cruel murder. See the planting ceremony of the new two-metre (6.5ft) sapling in the photograph below.

To read more go to the link above.

by viscountessw