Richard III

[sue marsden]

I expect Patrick would be following the events at Leicester today with interest

Comments

[legionseagle (from livejournal.com)]

Complaining that it wasn't York or Westminster Abbey, that the box looked a bit plain and that they only had compline, not a sung Requiem Mass, for starters, I expect.

[(Anonymous)]

If he'd by now fulfilled his ambition of writing a new history going back to original source material, perhaps he'd be wheeled in as one of the experts to provide commentary on the events. "And in the studio we've got the historian, Patrick Merrick ... Patrick, what do you think Richard would have made of all this?" (etc.)

MHeloyse

[(Anonymous)]

He wouldn't have wanted it in either York Minster or Westminster Abeey. He would defintiely (and with a good deal of logic) wanted the bones in a Catholic cathedral.

colne_dsr

[legionseagle (from livejournal.com)]

But none of the English Catholic Cathedrals are earlier than 1852 and the English Catholics of the Merrick type were pretty unenthusiastic about their creation, so presumably he still holds grudges.

[hooloovoo_42]

And from this comment, I've just googled the Sheffield Catholic cathedral and learned a whole load about the Dukes of Norfolk and their titles and history.