tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post599960547272322584..comments2024-03-23T18:12:43.833+00:00Comments on Once I Was A Clever Boy: The King under the car parkOnce I Was A Clever Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-24711345659506187242013-02-07T16:32:58.429+00:002013-02-07T16:32:58.429+00:00I too have been following this story and was certa...I too have been following this story and was certain that you would be too. I was going to e-mail you with some questions but thought it might be better to put them on here that others might benefit from our discourse. <br /><br />First, do you agree with the suggestions of many commentators, that King Richard should now receive a State Funeral? Is this necessary given that he did (I assume) receive an actual funeral at the time of his death, ableit without the usual pomp that accompanies a King's send-off. <br /><br />If your answer to the above is 'yes' then that raises the question of where he should be interred. Should he be given a place in Westminster Abbey like so many English monarchs, and where he could be reunited with his Queen - Anne Neville, or would somehwere else be appropriate? I have heard it said that the King, during his lifetime, had expressed a desire to be buried in York so wouldn't York Minster be the better choice?<br /><br />Finally (and perhaps most importantly), should the funeral take place according to the rites of the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church. Richard was, like everyone else in England at the time, a Roman Catholic and in communion with the Pope. Is it not essential, therefore, that his funeral take place according to a form the King would have recognised?Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480168071645210960noreply@blogger.com