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Richard 111 Burial
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Looking at the local news surrounding the finding of the remains of Richard 111, all the Protestant church people are up in arms claiming that their church should be the final resting place of his remains. Surely he was a Roman Catholic? Before the Protestant religion was even thought of. It seems the RCs should be first choice. It's nice to watch them squabble though.
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He should be buried in Westminster Abbey with most of the other Kings and as it is out of the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Queen (as her right as the custodian) ceding to a Catholic service in the Abbey, as you are correct, Mr Stickman Painter.
Give him a State Funeral to (i) recognise that he was a King (ii) give them a practice run for the Queen's demise (iii) and on that the excuse for the Thatchers to decline the State Funeral for when the Blessed Maggie goes - and there is precedence in this with the Disraeli and Nightingale families......
Give him a State Funeral to (i) recognise that he was a King (ii) give them a practice run for the Queen's demise (iii) and on that the excuse for the Thatchers to decline the State Funeral for when the Blessed Maggie goes - and there is precedence in this with the Disraeli and Nightingale families......
By all accounts he wanted to be buried in York he had paid for 10 priests to say prayers for him. This is according to local legend. He was born in Middleham Castle, North Yorkshire. Our local paper says that Leicester have asked for the right to bury him in Leicester and they are deciding on a ceremony. Perhaps his long term parking ticket was out of date so they decided to hang on to him.
Apparently, chrissa, Maggie has been offered a state funeral so that they can have a "practice" before the Queen pops her clogs - they haven't had one since Churchill in 1965. There is a controversy going on about it.....(imagine gromit's reaction here!), and there has been a suggestion that RIII may offer a way out for the "practice" and then for the Thatch family to decline the invitation re Mags, which is their prerogative.....
Yorkshire people have petitioned the Queen and Ministry of Justice to have his remains brought to Yorkshire. But the Minister of Justice said that because the University of Leicester applied for the licence to exhume the remains it was up to them to decide where they would bury him, they were the ones who were granted permission to exhume the monarch's body. The notice reads 'that (the University) no later than August 31 2014 deposit the remains at Jewry Wall or have them interred at St Martins Cathedral or in a buriel ground where legal interments take place.' York Minster had no quarrel with that ruling.
"He was born in Middleham Castle, North Yorkshire."
Not so. He was born in Fotheringhay Castle, north of the market town of Oundle, Northamptonshire. It was not until age 8, after the death of his father (Richard, 3rd Duke of York), that he and his elder brother George, Duke of Clarence were taken in by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and lived with the Nevilles at Middleham Castle.
Not so. He was born in Fotheringhay Castle, north of the market town of Oundle, Northamptonshire. It was not until age 8, after the death of his father (Richard, 3rd Duke of York), that he and his elder brother George, Duke of Clarence were taken in by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick and lived with the Nevilles at Middleham Castle.
