• King Richard III gets a proper burial service, 530 years after his death
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/baxg.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/22/king-richard-iii-reburial-rest-in-peace-leicester[/url] [quote]In the long shadows of a golden evening, after an extraordinary day when the cortege of a man who died more than 500 years ago passed through country lanes and suburban streets lined with hundreds of thousands of people, the remains of a king came back to Leicester. "King Richard, may you rest in peace in Leicester", the city mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby said, standing on Bow Bridge, which the last Plantagenet crossed as a battered naked corpse in 1485, his crown, his life and his dynasty lost on the battlefield at Bosworth. On that August day his body was described by Thomas More as "a miserable spectacle", slung "like a hogge or a calfe, the head and armes hangyng on the one side of the horse and the legs on the other side". This time the mayor and councillors and other dignitaries turned out in their finest to welcome him, at the spot where legend said his bloodied head struck the same stone his spur knocked as he rode out to his last battle. It was a city Richard would no longer recognise from the medieval town he knew, Soulsby said, but it was true to its motto, always steadfast. "We welcome King Richard back to Leicester," he said, "now greeted by us with honour and dignity."[/quote] [url]http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-31990721[/url] [quote]King Richard III's remains have arrived at Leicester Cathedral ahead of his reburial. His funeral cortege entered the city at the historic Bow Bridge after touring landmarks in the county. Cannons were fired in a salute to the king at Bosworth, where he died in 1485. His coffin will be on public view at the cathedral from 09:00 GMT on Monday. He will finally be reinterred during a ceremony on Thursday. Richard's skeleton was found in 2012, in an old friary beneath a car park.[/quote]
If his spirit is actually floating around, he'll probably still be immeasurably pissed off because after he was killed his corpse was stripped in public, put on a horse, cut, stabbed (iirc he had a spear embedded in his arse cheeks), just before it was paraded through Leicester and dumped in a tomb in some no-name church that got demolished less than 50 years later Oh and if that wasn't enough a certain [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare]literary genius[/url] twisted his reputation and history right out of proportion until the vast majority of people over the next few hundred years saw him as a crippled, scheming, murdering lunatic
Is that shit on the road?
[QUOTE=Soret;47376389]Is that shit on the road?[/QUOTE] Yeah man, horses poop.
[QUOTE=Rapscallion92;47376410]Yeah man, horses poop.[/QUOTE] You would think of all the pictures they could have used, they wouldn't use the one taken seconds after the horse had shat all over the road.
[QUOTE=Rapscallion92;47376410]Yeah man, horses poop.[/QUOTE] This man will never get a proper burial
Should have buried him in York. :v:
It means they give a crap, because I sure hell don't.
[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;47376344]If his spirit is actually floating around, he'll probably still be immeasurably pissed off because after he was killed his corpse was stripped in public, put on a horse, cut, stabbed (iirc he had a spear embedded in his arse cheeks), just before it was paraded through Leicester and dumped in a tomb in some no-name church that got demolished less than 50 years later Oh and if that wasn't enough a certain [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare]literary genius[/url] twisted his reputation and history right out of proportion until the vast majority of people over the next few hundred years saw him as a crippled, scheming, murdering lunatic[/QUOTE] Please, everyone knows he was decapitated at Bosworth field. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKQ9EG7F7Xc[/media]
[QUOTE=smurfy;47376268][img]http://imgkk.com/i/baxg.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/22/king-richard-iii-reburial-rest-in-peace-leicester[/url] [url]http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-31990721[/url][/QUOTE] I was expecting a more impressive casket.
[QUOTE=ScumBunny;47378767]I was expecting a more impressive casket.[/QUOTE] He's literally all bone by now, why waste all that money making a more impressive casket?
Been a tough year for celebrity deaths eh
[QUOTE=ccg;47378856]He's literally all bone by now, why waste all that money making a more impressive casket?[/QUOTE] Why waste money on impressive caskets, flesh or bone?
Just look at this damn picture of the procession before the horse-carriage, I mean look at it: [img]http://i.imgur.com/IinIjCS.png[/img] It's great to see them doing this for him, long live King Richard III! [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu-GiqKWM-U[/url]
A bit unrelated but I just watched Kevin Spacey's documentary about his Richard III Shakespeare tour and he really takes on roles seriously. I highly suggest "Now".
[QUOTE=Cypher_09;47379087] long live King Richard III! [/QUOTE] It may be little late for that I think...
[QUOTE=ScumBunny;47378767]I was expecting a more impressive casket.[/QUOTE] i think it has to do with the dimensions of the cathedral's crypt
[QUOTE=mini me;47380119]It may be little late for that I think...[/QUOTE] It's often used when monarchs die to mean "may their spirit live on forever"
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