Re-interment of King Richard III

Oh those are great points, Bonny.  

Can't wait to see it.  It's so exciting, I think you must all be thrilled at what is a once in a life time event.  

In just a few years, his image with the general public has gone from the limping, twisted, Shakespearean caricature to......



It's a huge change in perceptions. Also, due to being found under a car park, he's somehow become part of NOW, and not just a character in the history books. It's hard to explain, but he's one of the few characters from history that is also part of the present?

Yes he is and as you say, like a time traveller.   

He's a Superstar.....

Richard III procession: Timings of Sunday's events

By Leicester Mercury | Posted: March 20, 2015

By Samantha Fisher

The remains of King Richard III will leave the University of Leicester tomorrow and after a procession through the county and city will be placed in Leicester Cathedral ahead of the reinterment on Thursday. Here we take a look at the timings of the events.

10.50am: King Richard III's coffin leaves the Fielding Johnson Building, University of Leicester. This is the first time the coffin will have been seen by the public.

The university's chancellor, president and vice-chancellor and chaplain, alongside the team who discovered Richard III, will lead a public ceremony before the coffin is carried to the hearse.

11.40am: The cortege departs the university.

12.30pm: The procession arrives at Fenn Lane Farm, the closest place to Richard III's death, where there will be a private ceremony led by the Rev Hilary Surridge.

Soil from three places in Richard's life – Middleham, in North Yorkshire, Fotheringhay, in Northamptonshire, and Fenn Lane – will be brought together.

1.25pm: Dadlington. A guard of honour from schools will welcome the procession. Local clergy will join the cortege, with its mounted escort in medieval battle, to process around the village green.

There will be a 10-minute service on the green, led by the Rev Linda Blay.

Morris dancers, handbell ringers and a community choir will perform. People will be able to visit the church where there will be an exhibition of records relating to the battlefield. A guide will be available to answer questions. The events here finish at 5pm.

1.55pm: The procession arrives at Sutton Cheney for a 10-minute ceremony outside St James the Greater Church, led by the Rev Julia Hargreaves.

A recorder group will play medieval music before and after the cortege stops for prayers. Six men-at-arms from the Beaufort Companye, a medieval re-enactment group, will escort the cortege through the village.

Refreshments will be available in the village hall before and after the cortege passes.

2.20pm: Ceremony at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, at the Battlefield Sundial, led by the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Rev Tim Stevens.

Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre is open to ticket-holders only from 10am to 6pm. There will be living history encampments, a falconry display and an exhibition. People will be able to discover more about the battle, with interactive displays.

3.40pm: There will be a 10-minute service in Market Bosworth led by the Rev Canon David Jennings.

Sir John Savile's Household, a 15th century re-enactment group, will form a guard of honour for the cortege and give talks on costume and armour.

The parish church of St Peter will ring its bells and the community choir will perform in Market Square.

There will be a farmers' market all day and many shops will be open. A talk and book signing by Chris Skidmore on the last days of Richard III will take place in the parish hall. There will be medieval games and stalls on the country park.

3.55pm: The cortege departs from Market Bosworth for Newbold Verdon and Desford.

4.30pm: The procession comes to Leicester's Bow Bridge – the site of the bridge from which Richard is believed to have ridden out to Bosworth – where the mayor, lord mayor and guild of freemen will welcome the remains at the medieval city boundary. A garland of roses will be wrapped around the bridge post.

4.50pm: Walking procession where the coffin will be carried into St Nicholas Church accompanied by St Nicholas Singers.

A Litany of the Saints and short prayers will be said. The service is by invitation only. The coffin will leave the church and be placed on a horse-drawn hearse.

5.15pm: The cortege leaves St Nicholas Church to travel through the city centre via High Street, the Clock Tower, Gallowtree Gate, Halford Street, Rutland Street, Pocklingtons Walk and Grey Friars.

5.45pm: The cortege arrives at Leicester Cathedral. The responsibility for the remains of Richard III will be transferred from the university to the church outside the cathedral. The coffin will then be received into Leicester Cathedral.

Service of Compline will formally acknowledge the reception of the remains into the care of the cathedral. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, will preach.

The service is by invitation only. It will be shown on big screens in Jubilee Square and at the Clock Tower.

Organisers recommend High Street, Gallowtree Gate or outside Curve to see the cortege.

In the county, organisers recommend choosing a viewing point in Market Bosworth.

Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Richard-III-reinterment-Timings-Sunday-s-events/story-26207977-detail/story.html#ixzz3V6KDQAOc
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Assorted links for you all to read. LL

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/03/17/530-years-after-death-richard-iii-finally-getting-coffin/
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Richard-III-Meet-volunteers/story-26181364-detail/story.html
http://www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council/city-mayor-peter-soulsby/my-projects/connecting-leicester/king-richard-iii-visitor-centre
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Richard-III-Hundreds-visit-city-learn-discovery/story-26210273-detail/story.html

BBC News coming live from Leicester - first sight of His Grace's coffin. LL

Missed it, LL - I am trying to get a few chores done before full coverage starts this afternoon.

The Express story:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/565552/The-Queens-pays-tribute-Richard-III-burial-heartfelt-eulogy-evil-monarch

EXCLUSIVE Queen honours 'evil' monarch: Royals have a change of heart over Richard III

THE Queen will pay tribute to Richard III this week as Britain prepares to rebury its most maligned monarch, 530 years after his death in battle.

By CAMILLA TOMINEY
PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Mar 22, 2015

Her heartfelt eulogy will form the centrepiece of Thursday’s ceremony at Leicester Cathedral when the “evil” king, blamed for the murder of the Princes in the Tower, will finally be laid to rest with honour. His skeleton was found under a council car park in the city in 2012, dumped unceremoniously in an unmarked grave after the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

It is a remarkable U-turn for the 88-year-old monarch, who has deliberately distanced herself from the celebrations.

She has asked the Countess of Wessex to represent her at the ceremony, the first burial of a king since her father George VI’s funeral in 1952.

The Queen has chosen instead to spend the day in Kent, unveiling a new Battle of Britain learning centre at Capel-le-Ferne.

The precise contents of the eulogy have not been released but sources have described the Queen’s words as “surprising” and “sweet” and say they will call on Britain to recognise the importance of Richard III in our nation’s history.

One source close to the commemorations revealed: “It is as if the Royal Family has had a change of heart.”

Richard III was the last king to die on the battlefield. He was succeeded by his opponent that day, Henry Tudor, from whom the Royal Family is descended.

More at link.

Bonny, looks like BBC News is doing an indepth coverage.   Still going on, their reporters are now at the battlefield site.   The anchorman says they will be covering it on and off all day. LL

From me and my family, Yorkists to the core, to His Grace King Richard, Third of that name  of England.   LL

Those are lovely, LL, and I am so pleased that you - and all the other people who have campaigned for Richard for so long - can see this day.

I'm sure you would like to actually be there, but I suspect it's one of these occasions when you actually get a better view on TV, without all the walking and crowds?

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That's good - Dominic was splendid.

bb1 wrote:Those are lovely, LL, and I am so pleased that you - and all the other people who have campaigned for Richard for so long - can see this day.

I'm sure you would like to actually be there, but I suspect it's one of these occasions when you actually get a better view on TV, without all the walking and crowds?

I seriously considered it, but I decided against it. I no longer fly, so I would have had to drive from here to Leicester which is close to 2,000km, using the quickest route, Hungary - Austria - Germany - Belgium - cross the Channel then up from the coast to Leicester, approx 24hrs minimum with some pitstops. If I was younger then, yes, I would have done it and enjoyed every minute, but I am not so stupid as to attempt something that might end in disaster. Walking is now a slight problems and I happen to hate crowds. So I will watch it on my lovely laptop as I can't get it on TV. LL

At least you can get it on the internet, LL, and it should be YouTubed fairly quickly - C4 aren't as precious as the BBC.

I may as well give up trying to get anything done today. I am pleased to see they've got sunny weather in Leicester today.

What's amazing, and fascinating, is to see such an outpouring of emotion from thousands and thousands of people, all over the world, LL. The only similar event I can think of is the reburial of the Tsar and his family, but even that doesn't work, as their deaths were within living memory.

I don't know, has there always been some kind of subconscious folk memory of a terrible injustice being done? Is it that odd feeling of something going wrong with history at Bosworth, that still provokes emotion? Every time you see a re-enactment of Bosworth, or read a book about it, etc., you somehow want the ending to be different this time...

I don't think this would have happened at any earlier time - when Victoria was on the throne, he'd have been lucky not to end up in Madam Tussaud's.

Is it because we know so much about him thanks to technology? And also because turning up under a council car park is somehow a very 21st century thing, nothing of the mystique and remoteness of other long-dead monarchs?

It's a very strange phenomena...

Well look what happened afterwards. What a disgrace that was.

Am excited along with everyone here.  

A sad note - Rosemary Hawley Jarman who wrote a very good novel about Richard 'We Speak Nol Treason' died on 17 March 2015, not living long enough to see her King finally honored as he should have been. RIP Rosemary. LL

At this moment, 14.44 UK - BBC News. LL

Lamplighter wrote:A sad note - Rosemary Hawley Jarman who wrote a very good novel about Richard 'We Speak Nol Treason' died on 17 March 2015, not living long enough to see her King finally honored as he should have been.   RIP Rosemary.   LL

That's a bit sad.

I am none too sure who can see what, but there's a piece coming up on BBC E Midlands, before the main event on C4...

Is there likely to be a video do you think? It has really hit me in this last 24 hours.

Sabot wrote:Is there likely to be a video do you think?  It has really hit me in this last 24 hours.

This is from youtube ma petite, just a short snippet, but there will be more I am sure.  LL

Lamplighter wrote:

Sabot wrote:Is there likely to be a video do you think?  It has really hit me in this last 24 hours.

This is from youtube ma petite, just a short snippet, but there will be more I am sure.  LL

Sorry. I need the link.