Josephine Tey’s “The Daughter of Time” and her inspector Alan Grant can fascinate even over 50 years

Philippa Langley, the leading lady in the search for King Richard III, now continues with her research and diggs into the historical sources about the Princes in the Tower.
Professional cold case investigators now take over where historians failed for centuries. New, so far closed archives are opened for investigation and material is carried together all over Europe to make the progress of this new research effort interesting to watch.

530 years after the Battle of Bosworth where King Richard III died, the re-enactors make him and his time live again.

Finally, a royal recognition of the events in Leicester, by awarding the Membership of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) to both Philippa Langley and Dr. John Ashdown-Hill.

(As I was not familiar with the title of ‘MBE’, I had to look it up here at Wikipedia.)

So much effort was undertaken for the re-burial of King Richard III. Still they got King Richard III’s birthday wrong in his eulogy in Leicester Cathedral.
Here a quite understandable reaction by Dr. John Ashdown-Hill, who did such extensive research about King Richard III and who enabled the finding of the grave, to be embarassed that even such a basic fact about the king was ignored.
In the debate about the finding of King Richard III, it certainly does not help, that some try to make fun of the historian Dr. John Ashdown-Hill, who did the necessary background research to enable the find. The University of Leicester, pressed into the research, did not find the king. They only provided the research equipment, personnel and know-how for coping with the search results, but not the necessary optimism, the belief, the pre-determined area where to dig and the enormous work to achieve the acceptance by the authorities to allow the dig in those areas that was necessary that the king could be found. Without Dr. John Ashdown-Hill’s pre-research and Philippa Langley, the king would have remaind where he was for over 500 years. To ignore that fact is to ignore the real circumstances of the search.

Interview with Philippa Langley reveals her next research project. The search for Henry I’s abbey in Reading.

An interview with Michael Ibsen, relative to King Richard III who helped identify him, about his experiences with the research, making the wood coffin and the ceremonies in Leicester.

Live from Leicester – Tweets as the event happened. Burial ceremony in Leicester Cathedral with a statement by Benedict Cumberbatch about his BBC role as Richard III which relies on Shakespeares version.

Order of service for the burial ceremony of King Richard III in Leicester Cathedral.

Poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy for King Richard III, read at his burial ceremony in Leicester Cathedral.
Link to the video: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-benedict-cumberbatch-read-poem-5402615

Follow the events of and around King Richard III’s burial ceremony in Leicester Cathedral in this news stream.

A royal burial. The burial ceremony of King Richard III in Leicester Cathedral was attended by relatives and royalty.

The New York Times with a detailed report about the burial ceremony of King Richard III in Leicester Cathedral.

To write a letter to be read at a burial ceremony and hardly even mention the one buried, is something only a reigning queen can do:

Apparently, Richard III will be referred to as "King of France" (as well as England) at #RichardReburied Hmmm… pic.twitter.com/LO89BcBxRO

— Christopher Goulding (@GouldingChris) March 26, 2015

Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy’s eulogy read by Benedict Cumberbatch at the burial ceremony in Leicester Cathedral.
(Full text of poem printed here.)

A historically well founded article about King Richard III, contradicting David Starkey’s remark live on TV about Richardian as “loons”.

A further break in the male lines of royal houses. What upheaval an over 500 years dead king can create.
Further research will be done in the matter. Will it result in sly women’s late exposure?

King Richard III’s coffin in Leicester Cathedral beofre the burial om 26 March 2015 attracts many and diverse visitors.

King Richard III receives accolades before his burial on Thursday, 26 March 2015.

The run to get the Leicester Mercury Supplement about King Richard III was so great, that they also make it available as a downloadable version.