Tango01 | 26 Mar 2015 12:52 p.m. PST |
"White roses lie everywhere in Leicester with thousands lining up for a glimpse of King Richard III's coffin, as he lies in repose ahead of tomorrow's final burial in a $5 USD million cathedral tomb. The reinterment, 530 years after the medieval king was slain on a battlefield a few miles away at Bosworth, will be marked by the same pomp and ceremony that accompanied Richard III's remains on Sunday during a 22-mile journey through the middle-England countryside and Leicester streets. On that occasion, some 35,000 people lined the streets to witness the funeral cortege led by two knights in full medieval armor. Crowds threw white roses on the passing coffin, echoing emotional scenes at Princess Diana's funeral in 1997…" Full article here link Also… Who was King Richard III? "History lesson time. Richard III is the most famous English king to be found under a parking lot. But what do we know about him? After effectively being lost to history for over 500 years, his remains were found by researchers near a church in the regional city of Leicester in 2012. On Thursday, after Britain spent about a week commemorating the last English king to die on a battlefield, his coffin will be formally re-interred at Leicester Cathedral in a ceremony attended by members of the current royal family and other dignitaries…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
KTravlos | 26 Mar 2015 1:06 p.m. PST |
Oh for the sake of frack Armand. Half the people buried in Westminster abbey were murderers :p |
Tango01 | 26 Mar 2015 1:08 p.m. PST |
Only half? (smile) Amicalement Armand |
KTravlos | 26 Mar 2015 1:13 p.m. PST |
nah they have a bunch of poets in there as well :p |
McKinstry | 26 Mar 2015 1:21 p.m. PST |
I doubt there was a single Tudor who didn't commit a multiple of any crimes Richard was credited with and some of his Plantagenent ancestors made him look like a sweetheart. Not a job generally for the squeamish. As to poets, technically I'd take Richard, Henry VIII and John ahead of the vileness inflicted on humanity by McGonagall. |
tberry7403 | 26 Mar 2015 2:02 p.m. PST |
"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides." |
79thPA | 26 Mar 2015 2:02 p.m. PST |
Not a criminal in the lot until Richy the Third came along. |
Mollinary | 26 Mar 2015 2:55 p.m. PST |
He doesn't seem to have been a man to make an enemy of – or a friend for that matter! Mollinary |
Goonfighter | 26 Mar 2015 3:08 p.m. PST |
Edward I is buried in Westminster; from a Scots perspective he was a war criminal and that's before you look at his track record in Wales and against the Jews. Many medieval monarchs would have find themselves at The Hague if temporal rendition existed. |
20thmaine | 26 Mar 2015 3:24 p.m. PST |
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time. 'Twas about seven o'clock at night, And the wind it blew with all its might, And the rain came pouring down, And the dark clouds seem'd to frown, And the Demon of the air seem'd to say- "I'll blow down the Bridge of Tay." When the train left Edinburgh The passengers' hearts were light and felt no sorrow, But Boreas blew a terrific gale, Which made their hearts for to quail, And many of the passengers with fear did say- "I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay." But when the train came near to Wormit Bay, Boreas he did loud and angry bray, And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time. So the train sped on with all its might, And Bonnie Dundee soon hove in sight, And the passengers' hearts felt light, Thinking they would enjoy themselves on the New Year, With their friends at home they lov'd most dear, And wish them all a happy New Year. So the train mov'd slowly along the Bridge of Tay, Until it was about midway, Then the central girders with a crash gave way, And down went the train and passengers into the Tay! The Storm Fiend did loudly bray, Because ninety lives had been taken away, On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time. As soon as the catastrophe came to be known The alarm from mouth to mouth was blown, And the cry rang out all o'er the town, Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down, And a passenger train from Edinburgh, Which fill'd all the peoples hearts with sorrow, And made them for to turn pale, Because none of the passengers were sav'd to tell the tale How the disaster happen'd on the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time. It must have been an awful sight, To witness in the dusky moonlight, While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray, Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay, Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay, I must now conclude my lay By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay, That your central girders would not have given way, At least many sensible men do say, Had they been supported on each side with buttresses, At least many sensible men confesses, For the stronger we our houses do build, The less chance we have of being killed. |
Goonfighter | 26 Mar 2015 3:33 p.m. PST |
Was that really necessary? Mentioning McGonagall is bad eneough but unleashing his "verse" on the public is heinous. |
GildasFacit | 26 Mar 2015 4:00 p.m. PST |
Somehow 'McGonagall's Night' doesn't have the same ring to it. Mind you having to eat haggis at the ceremony may be made less bad if the senses were drowned by having to listen to his poetry. |
Sobieski | 26 Mar 2015 4:26 p.m. PST |
Try haggis. If it's well made it's delicious. |
Zargon | 26 Mar 2015 4:56 p.m. PST |
It is but a temporary interment in Foul Leicester |
Shedman | 26 Mar 2015 5:45 p.m. PST |
Richard III is the most famous English king to be found under a parking lot. Spot on – King Stephen IV was the other one and he wasn't even dead |
20thmaine | 26 Mar 2015 6:44 p.m. PST |
Was that really necessary? Yes. I love that poem. |
tberry7403 | 26 Mar 2015 7:55 p.m. PST |
Took me a while to find this: "Royalty pollutes people's minds, boy. Honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone's granddad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs was." |
Grelber | 26 Mar 2015 8:28 p.m. PST |
"Richard III is the most famous English king to be found under a parking lot." This line needs to be included if they ever do an updated edition of 1066 and All That. Grelber |
Billy Goat Wargaming | 27 Mar 2015 5:57 a.m. PST |
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20thmaine | 27 Mar 2015 6:21 a.m. PST |
Took me a while to find this:"Royalty pollutes people's minds, boy. Honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone's granddad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs was."
Or as Dylan put it : "steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king".
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gunnerphil | 28 Mar 2015 9:39 a.m. PST |
Whatever happened to innocent till proven guilty? |
Goonfighter | 28 Mar 2015 11:16 a.m. PST |
I suspect Richard III had the princes killed but I'd not be surprised that Henry VII had a couple of hard b'stards on fast horses on the way to the tower before the ink was dry on the paperwork, with instructions to get the princes out of the way. Given the later Tudor track record and the shakiness of his claim, if Richard didn't kill them, Henry would have. One other thing, which regiments did the soldiers at the service belong to? I'm curious as to which units are seen as the descendants of the forces at Bosworth. I'm presuming those recruiting from historically pro Yorkist counties; so I guess no Welsh or Lancashire regiments then….. |
42flanker | 16 Aug 2015 10:43 a.m. PST |
The regiments shown both had Leicestershire conections. The soldiers in the photographs were from the 9/12th Royal Lancers (now recently amalgamated with the Queens Royal Lancers to form the Royal Lancers) which recruited in midlands counties including Leicester and Rutland, and from the Royal Anglian Regiment, of which the Royal Leicestershire Regiment formed the 4th Battalion when the regiments of the East Anglian Brigade amalgamated in 1964. The tiger emblem on the pall bearers' upper sleeve commemorates the Royal Leicestershire's badge granted in 1825 for service in India 1804-1823, from which came their nickname 'The Tigers.' |
Gunfreak | 16 Aug 2015 1:57 p.m. PST |
Not a criminal in the lot until Richy the Third came along actually he preferd Dick, Dick the third. |
Great War Ace | 24 Aug 2015 7:50 a.m. PST |
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