Condensed report about the press confrence in Leicester Cathedral announcing the High Court decision about the review of the burial license granted to the University of Leicester and disputed by the Plantagenet Alliance.
 

Short overview video about the defenders of the burial license in favour of Leicester Cathedral.
 

The date of the burial is not determined yet, but the procedure in more detail was revealed at the presentation of the High Court results in Leicester yesterday. Read more about the 4 day event planned around the burial of King Richard III here in this article by Peter Warzynski.

The ‘eternal’ Wars of the Roses or why the final decision of the high Court in London might not be the end.

Comments and quotes about the decision of the High Court in favour of the existing granted burial license.

Leicester or York or …
On Friday (23 May 2014) the decision about the further procedure will be revealed when the decision of the High Court about the Exhumation License will be revealed at 10 a.m.

In this article, author Matthew Lewis (interview on KRA) very proficiently defends and discusses the case with student Julian Sutcliffe (in favour of King Richard III’s guilt).

Parlament needs to stay calm to decide about a procedure for the burial location for King Richard III. As King of England, Richard Plantagenet deserves an event celebrated with dignity and all honours. Though the procedures so far reveal more about our times than about King Richard’s.

The crown for King Richard III, individualised to his measurements, was designed and sponsored by historian Dr. John Ashdown-Hill and created by medieval jewellery expert George Easton.

Prof. Michael Hicks, already raising an unnecessary dispute about the significance of the archaeological research helped by the results in other disciplines, earlier this year, now states 5 alternative burial locations, which King Richard III might have prefered to Leicester.

An interesting new book about the discovery of King Richard III in Leicester by Mike Pitts, reviewed by Chris Bond.

That Germany sees Shakespeare as one of their own won’t surprise, if one takes into account the influence the famous bard had on German literature. Goethe admired him and set him up on a pedestal, today’s theatre producers play Shakespeare’s work up and down and every current problem will be projected on one of Shakespeare’s plays, if he had intended it that way or not, e.g. gay marriage, modern warfare, holocaust or marriage problems of all kinds. So it is of no great wonder that even “Richard III” gets modern relevance, as shown in this short article by one of Germans leading newspapers and is refered to wherever it gets ‘cold’.

Sudeley Castle once (or better twice) belonged to Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and the later King Richard III. The ruin of parts Richard III let build are still visible. Matt Lewis draws a vivid picture of this historic place and the people who formed and built it.

High Court closed over Easter, but soon after a decision about the license for the re-burial of King Richard III is expected. Will it be in favour of the University of Leicester, who had started arrangements with Leicester Cathedral or the Plantagenet Alliance, the 15 descendants of King Richard III, who want a re-burial in York Cathedral?

Now King Richard III gets spooky. Does he want to speak with us as well as influence us from the other side to being found?

Would be interested in what the result of such a poll would be, if it were hosted in a Leicester or much better in a neutral newspaper.

Don Chiswell will hold a talk about King Richard III at the Sawtry History Society on Thursday, 17 April 2014, at 7:30 p.m. (WI Hall on Gidding Road in Sawtry).

Progress with developing the future Richard III Museum in Leicester. The chosen director for the new museum will be announced soon.

What a treat for a king! – Would King Richard III have enjoyed the Easter holidays at Sudeley Castle and especially the petting zoo?

Mike Pitts, leading archaeologist and editor of ‘British Archaeology’, is convinced that the skeleton found in Leicester is of King Richard III. The remaining possible doubt is so slim and with all the diverse researches done, negligible.