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Bah! Humbug! I’m sick and tired of reading about 14-year-old Richard II being a monstrous tyrant. This is in The Uprising, of course, which film has filled the headlines for weeks now. The chosen plot sounds so weighted that it even suggests the film’s hero was the original Robin Hood! Eh? Robin Hood was around…
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When I saw the heading of the article below, for a moment I thought another son of Richard’s had been found! But no, it’s a plaque to Edward of Middleham. It was unveiled in the Church of St Mary and St Akelda in Middleham, in the year that marks the 550th anniversary of his birth.…
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We’ve heard before that King Charles—when Prince of Wales—was inclined to favour inspecting the contents of That Urn and thus solve the mystery that has blackened King Richard III’s name since the 15th century. I’d like to think something might come of this latest rumour, but I won’t hold my breath. Every royal since Henry…
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I don’t want to know how many “crude anatomical shapes” were painted on Richard’s statue in Cathedral Gardens, Leicester on Friday 28th August, (see https://tinyurl.com/m5mrya7w). I only wish he’d come to life and gone after them to jab his sword at their rear ends! Oh, if only…. But it says all we need to know…
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By Susan Lamb It was a bright Saturday morning and the Richard III Society was totally buzzing with excitement. It hadn’t seen this much excitement since Richard’s new wig in the museum. But today was the launch of a brand‑new apple variety, grown right there in Leicester, named after our good king Richard III. It…
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A lot of you may already have twigged that I enjoy the Country Life magazine articles about historic properties throughout the UK, and this https://tinyurl.com/3wdz2rzh (written by Toby Keel) is one of them. We all like to dream about living in a Home with History, but very few of us manage to achieve the dream. I’ll never…
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We all know by now that the usurper Henry Tudor, aka Henry VII, was born in Pembroke. The town even boasts a statue of him. Not that he ever did much for the Welsh. He was entirely self-seeking, and had his diminutive mother cracking the whip behind him. Well, we always imagine her being the…
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“….In the summer of 1553, a dying boy sat on England’s throne….” Edward VI was dying. He was only fifteen and unmarried, (https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/King-Edward-VI/) so there was no chance of him producing a son or daughter. This left his two older half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, as heirs to the English throne. We all know the story…
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The specialist contractors (the Olivetti Group) who worked on the burial area of Richard’s Greyfriars resting place (now relocated to the Richard III Visitors Centre) have used the word “eerie” to describe the experience. Their task was to replace the protective glazing that protects it, which was cracked by a bottle accidentally dropped by a…
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“….Josephine Tey biographer Jennifer Morag Henderson set to publish second works on renowned Inverness crime writer – and is ready for teaching role at University of Oxford….” Jennifer Morag Henderson, author of Josephine Tey: A Life, is to write a second book about the much loved author of The Daughter of Time, which has done…
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