Richard the Third

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  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    RideOnTime wrote:
    Tangled Metal wrote:
    RIchard III had survived Bosworth and gone on as king? Certainly his activity since having kingship conferred on him was at a high rate and progressive for those times.

    Is this a subtle way of implying Richard III is actually Richard I
    I do not understand your post? Richard III died on Bosworth field not Richard I (as Duke of Normandy he also went there as Richard IV) who died in France. Not sure what you are alluding to.
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Tangled Metal wrote:
    RideOnTime wrote:
    Tangled Metal wrote:
    RIchard III had survived Bosworth and gone on as king? Certainly his activity since having kingship conferred on him was at a high rate and progressive for those times.

    Is this a subtle way of implying Richard III is actually Richard I
    I do not understand your post? Richard III died on Bosworth field not Richard I (as Duke of Normandy he also went there as Richard IV) who died in France. Not sure what you are alluding to.

    you put I in Richard III
  • sheffsimon
    sheffsimon Posts: 1,282
    RideOnTime wrote:
    It needs to be substantive that Red Leicester is actually made in Leicester before it can go on the list...

    Even the renowed website http://www.britishcheese.com/redleicester is not clear on the subject. Seems to suggest its made in Leicestershire, not Leicester specifically.

    Strike it from the list, say I.

    I once had a chinese (meal) in Leicester..was alright, nowt special.
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    RideOnTime wrote:
    Dead King
    Rugby Team
    Tights are made there
    Pizza Hut
    National Space Centre
    Curry available
    Chinese food available


    I think Walkers are from Leicester? crisps that is
  • Philly8mt
    Philly8mt Posts: 552
    And Kasabian :D
    Still thinking of something clever to say!
  • andcp
    andcp Posts: 644
    ...and Bert Harris
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Harris
    "It must be true, it's on the internet" - Winston Churchill
  • andy9964
    andy9964 Posts: 930
    David Icke :shock:
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Dead King
    Rugby Team
    Tights are made there
    Pizza Hut
    National Space Centre
    Curry available
    Chinese food available
    Kasabian
    David Icke
    Bert Harris

    developing an impressive list here
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    Gary Lineker

    Willie Thorne
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    RideOnTime wrote:
    Dead King
    Rugby Team
    Tights are made there
    Pizza Hut
    National Space Centre
    Curry available
    Chinese food available
    Kasabian
    David Icke
    Bert Harris

    developing an impressive list here
    Dead King
    Rugby Team
    Tights are made there
    Pizza Hut
    National Space Centre
    Curry available
    Chinese food available
    Kasabian
    David Icke
    Bert Harris
    Gary Lineker
    Willie Thorne
    Lady Jane Gray
    Gok Wan
    has a Tree
  • flashgorman
    flashgorman Posts: 48
    Danial Lambet
    John Merrick
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Dead King
    Rugby Team
    Tights are made there
    Pizza Hut
    National Space Centre
    Curry available
    Chinese food available
    Kasabian
    David Icke
    Bert Harris
    Gary Lineker
    Willie Thorne
    Lady Jane Gray
    Gok Wan
    has a Tree
    Danial Lambet
    John Merrick
    Half decent cricket team
    half decent football team occasionally
    Saffron Lane cycle track (now closed though and probably built over)
    Me.
  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    random man wrote:
    Not rhyming slang but a dead king.

    I just don't understand why there's such a fuss about burying him.

    Because Richard III from the House of York, should have been buried in Yorkshire.

    Some good points raised in this thread... The history books were written by the victors and Richard III was victim of Shakespeare pro-Tudor propaganda.

    The War of the Roses wasn't about the two counties but a power struggle between clans. With nobility fighting on the side of whoever offered them money, land and titles. It was common for them to swap allegiances. Interesting fact is that at the Battle of Bosworth there were 3 armies, as Sir Stanley stood on the sidelines and watched the battle unfold until it was clear who was going to win, then Sir Stanley joined in on the winning side and delivered the death blow to Richard.

    Henry VII claim to the throne is so tenuous. The Tudors would have never reigned if they did not kill the last of the Plantagenets at Bosworth. It makes you wonder... There is no such thing as the Royal Family, as there as been many different lines who have seized the throne one way or another... Wessex, House of Normandy, Plantagenet, Tudor, Stewart, Hanover, Saxe-Coberg Gotha.
    "The Prince of Wales is now the King of France" - Calton Kirby
  • earth
    earth Posts: 934
    RideOnTime wrote:
    was he in the long stay?


    I believe he had a permanent disabled space.
  • earth
    earth Posts: 934
    RideOnTime wrote:
    So apart from Richard III... what's Leicester about?


    Red cheese.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    ben@31 wrote:
    The War of the Roses wasn't about the two counties but a power struggle between clans.

    P1ss off, we kicked those white rose tw*ts' heads in. :wink:

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