If that DNA test is positive they will ding the poor bastard for 500+ years of outstanding parking fees!
Tesco's have said they could have been helpful to his Majesty - if only they knew it was a kingdom for a horse!
If that DNA test is positive they will ding the poor bastard for 500+ years of outstanding parking fees! will it be classed as undercover parking?
will it be classed as undercover parking? Hell, if he was laid perpendicular they may charge him for two parking spaces!
Wasn't Brian Blessed playing "Richard IV" in Black Adder? With Peter Cook as Richard III. A bit late on that - several decades too late, actually! The REAL Richard!
Now to the serious bit, The Funeral - surely as a King Of England he's entitled to a 'State Funeral' My suggestion (in common with others) is for YORK Minster on Yorkshire Day August 1st - this should of course be a major state event and a PUBLIC HOLIDAY PZULBA - Out of Africa (Retired and living in Yorkshire!!!)
With a spine like that he must have had a pretty much rotten life. As for military performance I don't think much should be expected of him.
That spine at least qualified him for a Handicapped Parking spot and thank god or that would be an additional fine, x 500 years.
The Channel4 prog was rather interesting. I let my boys stay up to watch all of it. They should've been in bed on a school day at that time but thought they ought to see it. It helped that the presenter was a chap of Horrible Histories.
Despite the spinal curvature, he seems to have had a very good reputation as a soldier. Military history is full of cases of men who fought and led well despite missing limbs, eyes, and other handicaps: Carton de Wiart, Gouraud, Kutuzov, John B. Hood, Nelson, etc.
That reminds me of the Woody Allen film 'Sleeper'. Allen plays a man who wakes up after being cryogenically frozen for 200 years and immediately recounts that he left his car parked on a meter.
Facial reconstruction of Richard III BBC News - Richard III dig: Facial reconstruction shows how king may have looked
"Experts from the University of Leicester said DNA from the skeleton matches that of a descendant of Richard III's family." Surely the DNA only proves that the skeleton and persons currently living share the same lineage. So how does the DNA confirm that it is actually R III?
Let's put it in another way. How many persons sharing the lineage of R.III have been buried under a car park?
