King Richard III to be reburied

[Still Waters]

King Richard III, the medieval English monarch whose remains were found under a car park three years ago, will be reburied next week nearly 530 years after he was slain in battle and dumped in an humble grave.

His body will be re-interred at Leicester Cathedral next week in an oak coffin designed by a descendant whose DNA helped identify the remains. He will also win the regal recognition supporters say his conqueror Henry Tudor, later Henry VII, denied him.

https://uk.news.yaho...78.html#9ZZvEnq

[DefenceMinisterMishkin]

Better late than never..

[Still Waters]

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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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...rshire-31990721

[bubblykiss]

Gees, now Dave Plantagenet from accounting will be all over this for the next 2 weeks.

[Border Collie]

Tell Harry Tudor from HR to stick him one.

[Still Waters]

More than 5,000 people have visited Leicester Cathedral to view Richard III's coffin on the first day.

The last Plantagenet king's remains arrived after a cortege through Leicestershire and there were long queues on Monday with a four hour wait.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...rshire-32014296

[thedemon]

A documentary (by the Smithsonian, I believe) covered the search and discovery of his remains. Interesting doc and historic. It's about time they got this dude back in the dirt.

[Still Waters]

Richard III 'given dignity denied in death' as he is laid to rest.

Fallen king's remains buried in Leicester

http://www.telegraph...id-to-rest.html

[She-ra]

DNA Tests Uncover Evidence Of Infidelity In Royal Family Tree

This past December, a genetic analysis with DNA samples from his living descendants confirmed with 99.999 certainty that the remains do, in fact, belong to the much maligned monarch. And according to a blow-by-blow account created using CT imaging of his bones, the last king of England to die in battle went down fighting -- sustaining at least 11 wounds, nine of which were to his skull.

That genetic analysis, published in Nature Communications last year, also hinted at infidelity in his royal family tree. Mitochondrial DNA (inherited from the mother) was a match between the skeleton and two descendants of Richard III’s older sister, Anne of York. The Y-chromosomal markers in the male relatives, however, do not match: The male line of descent was broken at one or more points between Richard III and five living male-line relatives descended from Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, who died in 1803. The Beauforts were descended from Edward III, Richard’s great-great-grandfather who died in 1377.

“The break in the Y-chromosome line is not overly surprising given the incidence of non-paternity, but does pose interesting speculative questions over succession as a result,” University of Leicester’s Kevin Schürer said at the time. "We may have solved one historical puzzle, but in so doing, we opened up a whole new one," Schürer told BBC. The false paternity could have occurred anywhere between Richard III and Henry Somerset.

Read more here: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/dna-tests-uncover-more-evidence-infidelity-richard-iiis-family-tree