mikleed wrote:Mallosa / Margaret and Dudleytaylor.
Well ! after all these posts I think I feel a prat.... please do not take it serious I realise I can be a bit dogmatic in my views.
sorry Mallosa for using my sciatica as an excuse did not mean to be rude to you at all.
thank you Margaret for your sympathy. this forum as I said is a very friendly one. I think finding Richards body has become very sensative to some people
Catholic and Church of England.
Only one thing I think is Richard was buried at Greyfriars for some reason? that's why I say leave him in Leicestershire where he fought the Battle with Henry.
my spelling gives away my age!!!
Mike
I heard a theory that Henry VII didn't want Richard buried at York in case he became a focus for future rebellion. And he was buried inconspicuously in a monastery in Leicester for that very reason. Although Henry did order a marble tomb for him, there was never any evidence of it actually being built.
I think Richard should be buried with full honours in either Westminster Abbey or at York Minster. It seems that in his short time as king, he was a very good king, instituting a number of reforms for the benefit of the common people. And 'sides, it would be good for him to be able to stick a posthumous thumb up at Henry VII who appears to have been a thoroughly nasty piece of work and who had a very tenuous claim to the throne anyway.
All this from a colonial, descended from English convicts and Irish & Scots who probably wouldn't have cared a brass farthing. But I've always had a soft spot for Richard, who contemporaneous reports say was a brave, loyal, just man.
