To think that the people queing yesterday to see Richard III's coffin are seriously weird?

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the whole thing is way weirder than just liking the royal family, one old guy nearly 80 said its the most important thing to happen in his lifetime

WTAF???

whats wrong with some people??

Is your relie by any chance descended from Richard III?

The thing about the Royal Family tree is they never seem to go sideways and talk about the other children.

If you go back that far - and look at the other children, they had families who had families.

Our Queen was just lucky because her great great etc grandad was first born. She could easily have been a commoner just like other people.

DH and I were watching the news and pictures of the flower throwing flashed up. The reporter then mentioned that long queues were starting to build.

We did these faces and , however each to their own and all that.

In my house Richard III means something very different! Think rhyming slang

I find it far less weird that people are interested in history than people sobbing over Princess Di, or camping outside a hospital to wait for a royal baby to be born.

I'm a bit worried what Phillipa Langley will do at the funeral. Will she do a eulogy?

You don't see what's immensely interesting and patriotic about standing to see an ancient King of England being interred? Ok.....

the Royal family dont go sideways because a lot of them were either mad or friends with the Nazi's...or German ,

you'd keep quiet if you depended on having the adulation of the British people, whilst have so many skeletons in the cupboard you cant count them all

Some people find the whole adoration of the Monarchy weird. So throwing flowers on the coffin of a King who died 500 years ago is a whole new ball game.

Mintchoc

Blasphemy!! The white rose signifies the House of York not the usurper Tudor! Henry Tudor was a Lancastrian who married Richard's niece, Elizabeth of York, and combined the red and white roses into the Tudor emblem which is red on the outside and white in the middle.

It's been a fascinating discovery and I'd go if I was nearer.

I think people who stand out in freezing weather for over 90 minutes to watch their team get hammered at football, week in week out, year after year are deranged! (I have a few in my family.)

Doc, tell me you're a history teacher and not a nutter

I bet if you went back to say 1700 and then did the family tree from then - taking into account everyone involved - so all the children, their children etc - it would spread out quite a lot.

1 person - 2 children - each of them have 2 children etc etc

10 generations.

2 to the power of 10 = 1024 children at the end.

AIBU to marry the man who killed my uncle because he wants to unite our 2 houses

YABU. There are lots of Richard aficionados around and it's a way to feel part of history. I would go along if I lived nearer.

Lol! Just a nutter I'm afraid. I was at Bosworth Field for the quincentennial celebrations in 1985 and have been a fan of Rick's ever since.

We live quite near the battlefield. Believe me not much happens round here!

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Just to add I also found all the people standing outside the hospital when Prince G was born equally odd.

Just don't get it.

Ah doc x post

fair enough doc

runs for the hills

oh! i stand corrected..i'm sure the person on the news yesterday said
Tudor

Feel a bit sorry for Elizabeth of York having to marry Henry Tudor because it's possible he was the real murderer of her brothers, the princes in the tower.

So did he do it?

What happened to the Princes? A set up or guilty?

I'd not followed it at all- I vaguely recall his bones being found in a car park and controversy over where to bury him, but I totally get the interest. It's a wonderful relief from shopping working and soaps.