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Old 24-03-15, 07:18 PM
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If anyone should have given Richard III a state funeral, it would have been his people; the Brits who lived at the time of his death. Instead his officers and ministers decided it was enough to mutilate his corpse and dispose of him without ceremony.

Who are we to try to change history?
Just to clarify, he wasn't a King of Britain, He was a King of England, his people were the English.

The Tudor House of Lancaster was the New Monarchy, they certainly wouldn't have let him have a state funeral. True, we cannot change that history but since he has been found and exhumed he should have been given some sort of proper state funeral befitting a king, not a shuffle to the place he was hacked to death then escorted by a bunch of cadets and re-enactors. We where still bankrupt when that cow Maggie died,who all of Scotland, most of the North of England and Wales hated with a passion but the country managed a send off...
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