tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post799282448351970289..comments2024-03-23T18:12:43.833+00:00Comments on Once I Was A Clever Boy: Reburying King Richard III - a sensible decisionOnce I Was A Clever Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-64933247272458325892014-05-25T12:35:03.390+01:002014-05-25T12:35:03.390+01:00As you say, a sensible decision. The clamour for h...As you say, a sensible decision. The clamour for him to be reburied in York, in so far as it wasn't to do with tourism (which is why Leicester has been so keen to hang on to him) was mostly orchestrated by people who regard him as a much-maligned hero as opposed to a particularly ruthless medieval monarch. They seem to have the strange idea that finding his bones has in some way vindicated him and I was told in all seriousness by one woman (it's always women) that because 'Tudor propaganda' was wrong about the exact nature of his deformity that showed that everything negative said about him was wrong. <br />Members of the 'Plantagenet Alliance' seem remarkably insouciant about the fact that he executed their x17 or whatever great-grandfather, his brother-in-law Sir Thomas St Leger.Celiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06604937234890307888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-67587627857659531002014-05-24T19:06:25.930+01:002014-05-24T19:06:25.930+01:00Full judgement here:
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/w...Full judgement here:<br />http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/richard-3rd-judgment-.pdf<br />worth reading.<br />Kind regards<br />JohnJohn F H Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01032884551581324489noreply@blogger.com