Richard III discovered?

Originally Posted by Hom3r

Remember that history is often written by the victors and often portrays the loser in a negative light.

If any one here has seen the opening of Black adder 1 it say that history portrayed Richard III as an evil man who killed the princes, but he loved them and played games with them.

Whose not to say Black Adder was correct?

The Black Adder was set in an alternative history in which Richard III won the battle of Bosworth, only to be mistaken for someone else, murdered and then succeeded by Richard IV. It also makes jokes about people coming back from the Crusades, even though the crusades really finished a couple of hundred years earlier.

If The Black Adder got anything historically correct, it was entirely by accident.

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Originally Posted by danielf

Yeah, but a car park?

Because the Tudors believed burying someone under tarmac prevented their soul from ascending to heaven. Don't you read anything?!

[Uncle Peter]

The Tudors were a right old Jolly bunch, grave robbing, persecuting and burning the poor, bankrupting the country fighting the sodding French so maybe now poor ol' King Richie will managed to claw some of his reputation back.

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Well I had a hunch it would be Richard III

Somebody had to use it, seeing as the ronery jokes are now off.

Very funny ,
i was wondering if there will be a parking fine payable if they find a buried cart or some such near his body ?

they might find ye olde English clamp

Originally Posted by Uncle Peter

The Tudors were a right old Jolly bunch, grave robbing, persecuting and burning the poor, bankrupting the country fighting the sodding French so maybe now poor ol' King Richie will managed to claw some of his reputation back.

Sounds likes some of our politicians today ,funny how history repeats

[Cobbydaler]

Everyone should read The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. Styled as a detective story, it posits the truth.

Richard III reigned for only two years, and for centuries he was villified as the hunch-backed wicked uncle, murderer of the princes in the Tower. Josephine Tey's novel The Daughter of Time is an investigation into the real facts behind the last Plantagenet king's reign, and an attempt to right what many believe to be the terrible injustice done to him by the Tudor dynasty.

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains - a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the the Tudors?

Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard III really was and who killed the Princes in the Tower.

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

they might find ye olde English clamp

[Sirius]

King Richard III's remains have been found buried under a car park in Leicester. It appears he was stabbed and hacked to death before burial.
However, ATOS have said his spine is fine, and have declared him Fit to Work.

[raging bull]

Talk on BBC Look North, regarding burial of Richard.
Learned Prof of York University reconns that Richard (of York) should be buried within York Minster, think of the visitor attraction money rolling in. lol

[banjo]

If they keep digging he might be still sitting on his horse !

Sigh! Why not just watch the Channel 4 programme and be educated?

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Sigh! Why not just watch the Channel 4 programme and be educated?

I am and its incredible

Originally Posted by Sirius

I am and its incredible

bet it's not as funny as black adders version though

Stupid deaths, stupid deaths, it's funny cause it's true ....

[wwe]

They may be orther stuff buried down there