A Tomb for King Richard III !
The next news – I must admit – rather saddens me.
Rules and guidelines are made by persons, so if people want to hide behind rules, they find them fitting their opinion, as otherwise they would adjust the guidelines. Especially in an extraordinary and unexpected situation like this – when obviously the previously made guidelines can only cover anticipated situations, while the finding of King Richard III was certainly not among those.
♛ King Richard III ♛
- ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III: Tomb design does not meet Leicester Cathedral’s criteria, by Peter Warzynski, Leicester Mercury (12.03.2013) – Leicester Cathedral is against the tomb design by the Richard III Society and Philippa Langley.
You certainly can imagine that I, wanting a film to be made about the king and to bring attention to his time and life, will not be content with hiding the king beneath a floor stone. That is o.k. for a memorial plate, but for his burial, no, absolutely no way. He was beneath a simple floor already for far too long.
And the only opinions against the tomb design I encountered when the design was revealed in February 2013, were of the opinion that it was too modest. Even then, the tomb design got the support of 80 % in a poll at ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk.
So, please vote in the poll – tomb or memorial stone – on the website of ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk.
Thank you !
Further News:
- The York Press: MP Hugh Bayley calls for inquiry over Richard III’s body (12.03.2013) – The government should decide where to bury King Richard III.
- The Guardian: York plans Richard III fest as part of royal reburial campaign, by Martin Wainwright (11.03.2013) – York wants to celebrate King Richard III and the Peter Algar Award will be rewarded for the first time in October 2013. What a fitting memory to an extraordinary man, Peter Algar, who did not live to see the fantastic results about King Richard III, he would have been so happy about.
- ThisIsLeicestershire.co.uk: Richard III could bring £140 million tourism boost to Leicester, by Leicester Mercury (11.03.2013) – The tourism effect of a dead king, measured out and numbered.
- Hodder & Stoughton (Publisher): John Murray (Publishers) acquire The King’s Grave: The Search for Richard III by Philippa Langley and Michael Jones (11.03.2013) – The combination of historian and eye witness seems very gripping and I am certainly interested in the background story about the search for King Richard III.
The commercial value of the Pantheon for Richard III should not be first priority, but should defer to the dignity fit for a king, imperfect though he was. Knowing this complicated man from another time, his hopes, dreams and crimes could be a learning experience for our leaders.
It’s a shame that Richard’s tomb should be in Leicester at all. He should be allowed to go home to York. This is where he was preparing to be buried and this is where he was loved and is still. The people of York are not counting their profits, they just want Richard back in their midst again, where he belongs.
The more I read about Leicester rubbing their hands, thinking how much cash they can get by having his body, the more it sickens me. This is the place where he was betrayed, where his dead body was abused and where he was shoved into a too-small grave, his hands still tied, without even a shroud.
I am really very sorry that Richard Armitage, a man whom I admire and with whom I
share an admiration for King Richard, thinks it’s OK for the King’s remains to stay in Leicester: although Mr Armitage himself is from Leicester, so I do understand it.
I do hope that the ‘authorities’ change their minds about Richard’s final resting place and that they will eventually say, along with so many of us,
“Bring Him Home”.
Send King Richard to York where he will be better appreciated with a tomb and Effigy, he is a King not a poet or artist, did they use a slab for Henry VII !!!!!! He is an English King, this is disgusting, and this from a Cathedral, if they have not the room, why were they arguing to have his remains ?????? I m sure York Minster would give him the Honours of an English King, otherwise they might as well put his remains back where they found him, and put up a blue plaque!!!!! this is absolutely disgusting, I am a historian and studied in depth the Wars of The Roses, whether you agree or disagree on the views of his life HE WAS STILL A ENGLISH KING !!!!!!!!!!!