Merry Christmas, seasonal greetings

and happy and enjoyable festivities

to all our supporters, interview partners, article-authors and signers of the petition. A big Thank You and all the best wishes !

 
Now to a real Christmas treat for all Richard III and Richard Armitage ‘well-wishers‘:
 

♛ King Richard Armitage ♛

 
Richard Armitage in a late interview with Helen of Empire magazine (podcast of about 13.12.2013 – Richard III part begins at about 1:36:00)
speaking about his connection and interest in King Richard III:
 

 
Transcript of the part about King Richard III:
 
Helen (interviewer):
Is it true that you were named after Richard III?

RA: That is true. Yes.
My father was really into the history of the Plantagenets and I was born on 22nd of August which is the Battle of Bosworth Field when Richard died on the battlefield.
I was always a bit mad at my dad, because – for naming me after what was perceived to be a hunchbacked child-murderer. But then in later years I just developed a similar interest in the story, because we used to visit there every year on my birthday. Thanks, dad.
That was my birthday treat to go and look at an empty field, but – in recent months his remains had been found so it is all kind of coming to the surface again.

 
Helen: Quite literally.

RA: Literally.

Helen: When you said you began to share his interest I was worried you meant the child murdering and hunchback.

RA: No, no. No, definitely not that. Although, but the fascination with the sort of unsolved crime, I did become kind of interested in not necessarily resurrecting his heroicism, but just looking at the story again.
Because he was our last monarch that died on a battlefield and it’s interesting how I am sort of playing a character that is not dissimilar to him in Thorin. So I was using a bit of that – you know – character in Thorin. Yea.

♛ King Richard III ♛

• The Guardian: Richard III: the dead king who brought the world’s gaze to a Leicester car park, by Maev Kennedy (23.12.2013) – The article shows the perspective of archaeologist Mathew Morris, who unearthed the remains of King Richard III in the car park in Leicester.

 

• SNAP Judgment: How One Woman’s Secret Discovery Under A Parking Lot Changed 500 Years of History, Produced by Stephanie Foo (21.12.2013)

 
To celebrate there is a new music album about King Richard III, “Loyaulte Me Lie” by Guitarist Ian Churchward.

• Herald Express: Richard III album is chart hit for Ian (19.12.2013) – The album is in the folk top ten on Amazon, where it is available as MP3 download:
  Loyaulte me lie (Amazon.com)
  Loyaulté Me Lie (Amazon.co.uk)

 

• Leicester Mercury: Work starts on £4m Richard III visitor centre, Dan Martin (13.12.2013)