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Originally Posted by pirate1111:
It's taken a while, but I thought someone would eventually do it.
I think so far they're only hoping with baited breath that it's him. Would be great though. I've always liked Richard III and Shakespeare didn't do him any favours.
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by pirate1111:
It's taken a while, but I thought someone would eventually do it.
had to be done
it just had to be
sorry
I wish they wouldn't keep raking this stuff up. It makes me want to go out and knack a Lancastrian.
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
I wish they wouldn't keep raking this stuff up. It makes me want to go out and knack a Lancastrian.
i think theyre digging joe, a rake would be too small
Originally Posted by pirate1111:
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
I wish they wouldn't keep raking this stuff up. It makes me want to go out and knack a Lancastrian.
i think theyre digging joe, a rake would be too small
hahaha 
Originally Posted by cologne 1:
I think so far they're only hoping with baited breath that it's him. Would be great though. I've always liked Richard III and Shakespeare didn't do him any favours.
Ditto. I always had a soft spot for the "baddies". I could explain away John and Richard's behaviour for hours and don't get me started on Richard the Lionheart - that shoddy excuse for a king. Grrr...
I am so excited by this Pirate. I think Richard iii was very much maligned, due to Tudor slagging off.
That's what I said. I wouldn't trust those Tudors as far as I could throw them.
They made nice potato crisps though but.
Wooooo.....looking good!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/his...-hunchback-king.html
"To the team's astonishment, the excavation unearthed a result "beyond our wildest dreams", and strengthened their belief – which they hope will be put beyond doubt by DNA testing – that they have ended a decade–long search for his remains.
The skeleton was an adult male, who appeared fit and strong, but with spinal abnormalities that pointed to the fact that he had severe scoliosis, a form of spinal curvature.
This would have made his right shoulder appear higher than his left, and in less enlightened times would almost certainly have been cause for him being nicknamed a "hunchback"."
"He had suffered significant trauma to the head where a blade had cut away part of the back of his skull, an injury consistent with battle, and a barbed arrow head was found lodged between vertebrae in his upper back."
"Sir Peter Soulsby, Leicester's mayor, said: "They can't say it, but I can. This is as near a certainty as we can get that we've found him. Everything fits."
DNA tests are expected to take 12 weeks. The team will compare samples from the skeletal remains with the DNA of a direct descendant of the king's sister, Michael Ibsen, 55, a Canadian furniture maker who lives in London."
