Under the letter R!!! They’ve been looking into the princes in the tower by the same lady who found Richard III, in charles II reign they did alterations in the Tower and bones were uncovered under the stairs,the bones found are entombed in Westminster Abbey, they wanted to do a DNA and age test but our Queen Elizabeth II said to leave them entombed, now it’s up to our King Charles to give permission if he does it would be the end of the story.
WOW centuries back kings armored up snd took up on the battles. Those were real kings then ! Today they dress up with medals and titles and won’t even get the shoes wet or muddy ! Always a delightful to listen to you. Thank you 👍💕💕😊 Greetings from Panama 🇵🇦
Actually the medals they have are legitimate military medal because alot of them were formely soldiers who served. Or the bare minimum were their fathers
One of my very favorite anecdotal snippets about the Bosworth battle is how Lord Stanley stayed on the sidelines and waited to join in the battle on the side that seemed to be winning- then entered to fight for the victor(Henry VII) ..Talk about hedging your bets! A smart strategy considering those times where treason hardly needed a reason!
Poor King Richard, His wife and son dead and with no heir and almost insane with grief, and with treachery all around him, from the men who supported him ,he sold his life dearly and was brave and courageous to the end.
There was a further interesting incident in those final moments before Richard’s last stand; after skewering William Brandon with his lance, he used the broken end to knock John Cheyne off his horse. John Cheyne was Henry’s personal guard, a jousting champion, and was known to be a giant of a man; when they opened his grave centuries later they found a thigh bone, the length of which puts his height at 6’8” (a colossal stature for those times.) More recently a study was done using a man of similar stature to Richard who had an almost identical case of scoliosis; they taught him to ride and how to use a lance, and were able to determine that Richard (trained in combat from childhood, as was the norm for those of his social standing) most certainly would have had the skill, balance and coordination to deliver the necessary impact.
It shows how propaganda on the winning side can change history. Henry Tudor only became king because of his mother and uncle. He was insecure about his standing the rest of his life. That's the only reason he married Elizabeth of york. She could have been queen on her own. It would take her granddaughter Elizabeth I to be one of greatest female monarchs
I also realized that, following the series The white princess, the Stanley brothers always switched instantly to the winning side. Sort of like unloyal and not trustworthy.😮
Does anybody ever feel that rummaging through someone's grave is in poor taste? Imagine if we did that to graveyards today. These people were laid to rest respectfully by their loved ones for eternity.
I've got no sympathy for the posthumous humiliation of fancy pants rich people who thought they were better than everyone else, only to discover they were, in fact, mortal. Richard III murdered two children to grab onto power. Just imagine all the things these people did that we don't know about.
Oh geez. Cry me a river. What a weird little hill to die on. You’re just complaining to complain. Those folks are long gone. I’m sure they couldn’t care less what happened to their bodies in the distant future.
many Kings and Queens were buried at night by candle light with little ceremony and as a result many were lost then forgotten. Women by custom did not attended funerals in Britain until relatively recently. Jane Austin's sister Cassandra had to watch her beloved Jane be taken away for burial by her brothers. At the time of her death Jane was not famous and it is therefore remarkable she was buried in Winchester Cathedral.
I still find it fascinating at the number of armchair history experts who did nothing more than read a Wikipedia article, then come to the comments to correct the experts. It’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen.
Henry VIII's coffin was opened. King Charles I a coffin, suspected to be stillborn from Queen Anne and Jane Seymour not disturbed; King Richard II's coffin opened, at the moment, it's all I can remember.
Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth -- by Sir Rhys aps Thomas... my many times Great-Grandfather. Sir Rhys served 3 monarchs -- Henry VII, Henry VIII, & Elizabeth I. Sir Rhys was indeed "The Welshman" who killed Richard III. Sir Rhys was made the "Shire Reeve" (Sheriff)& Governor of Wales, & for a brief period held the Title of "Prince of Wales."
I was surprised when I visited King Georges chapel in Windsor, how unassuming King Henry the 8th's grave marker was. Then again, it was probably payback for this aweful person.
I wonder what became of Richard III's armor after he was killed? The lady here says he was stripped naked, and displayed, but surely someone at the time of his death kept some of his armor as a spoil of war, or something of that nature. I think about these things. Too much time on my hands...LOL
We do not have a constitution written or otherwise the late Queen in 1991 gave a speech to both houses of Congress in America she went on to say your contract is in your constitution ours is custom and will so we have custom and will.
king richard was overwhelmed and having had his helmet either stripped or him losing it they bashed his head in. the rondel dagger likely killed him and then the other wounds were probably the bashing in of his head.
My family on my mother's side are direct descendants of Henry Tudor....the family tree including various coats of arms and the names of my direct relatives, my children and even their Father are there. I have to say its quite overwhelming and a little bizarre when I look at it properly. Getting to the point, I am an actual descendant , and I have been learning from this history lesson and I'm only 10 minutes in. A very fascinating essay, thankyou.
There's no possible way that you're a direct descendant of Henry Tudor...the only way if it were true ...if you're somewhat related to the modern royal family. .. the only reason why the royal family is in anyway it's because of his Daughter Margaret Tudor...but good luck with that
@@susanbrand7503 There are many descendants of Henry VII through, as you say, Margaret Tudor and her sister, Many Tudor. I am directly descended through James VI and I, Charles I and Charles II, who had numerous illegitimate progeny. It is great fun to work these connections out, but there are hundreds of thousasnds of us!! I remember reading a book about genealogy in the early days of the internet which stated that the descendants of William the Conqueror numbered in the hundreds, whereas there is a later theory that Edward III is "father of the nation" in that anyone who has four English grandparents is descended from him - who of course was descended from William. It is mind-boggling, but don't dust off the ermine quite yet!!
Think... reflect on how life used to be. If you were poor, certainly some disease even now we consider how a cold could... take you away. If you were rich, certainly you had everything you wanted but when you went into battle there was a "butchery on the field" when it comes to swords, shields, hammers etc... even if they had armor the damage was UNIMAGINABLE... the things you saw on the battlefields were... UNIMAGINABLE... today as absurd as war is "it seems to be cleaner..." absurd thing to say... and yet once breaking, crushing, splitting, cutting etc... were things of the order of the day... I think many have seen scenes... that we now do not even see in our worst nightmares....
Why would Henry 7 bury Richard in an Abbey if Richard had killed his nephews? I don’t believe Richard did. I think Richard was made a villain by Shakespeare to garner support for the Tudors.
I think you must have got hold of a piece of - unfortunately - non-verified information. Everyone who studies this time period will cite Caxton as the person who brought the printing press to England. I've never come across anything, anywhere, which drags Richard into it. Caxton was the only person in the UK who knew how to work Johannes Gutenberg's invention. He brought it into the UK. And, really, changed our lives.
The Tudors did not use Catherine of Valois marriage to claim the English throne. But through Henry Vii's mother, Margaret Beaufort, who descended from the line of John of Gaunt.
It does make you wonder about the DNA of the boys, The late queen must have thought it was them. The whole line in succession is questionable anyway because somewhere far back didn't one of the King's have a wife who gave birth after a 11month pregnancy because he was absent for that amount of time from England on crusade !!
@@lajasnjohu5264to be fair, they thought our uterus traveled well into the late 1800s if not early 1900s. Leg pain? It moved to the leg. Chest pain? It moved into the chest. Wearing heels? Totally makes your uterus wiggle about in your body.
On the Princes in the Tower; gendering skeletons is a guessing game. Archeologist look at “common” characteristics of genders (such as larger pelvises being common for women and/or the items buried with said skeleton) but they are realistically guessing the gender and readily admit this. Thus, the only way to gender the two children skeletons, especially as there were no remains of burial items and the bones are of prepubescent age (where changes in the skeleton would sway someone is of one gender over another), would be to have their DNA tested.
Yes. Not unexpected, but still kind of a bummer. One tidbit for you is that many of the tombs of the kings and queens of France were lost during the revolution.
Кто были все эти люди.... уже давно - не важно. Одно только истинно - в прах все превратились... и короли, и графья там всякие, князья и простолюдины.. Одно МЕРИЛО - ДЛЯ ВСЕХ
Why do this? It’s disgusting to disturb their coffins not to mention disrespectful for what? Because science is nosey and could care less that they were breathing, living human beings. Leave them at rest. It’s the right thing to do.
They are not at rest, they are just a bundle of old bones uncared for and unloved, just like the hundreds of billions of people and animals who have died before and no trace is left and that is going to be our fate too.
@pioneercynthia1 Richard III wasn't buried "in a car park." He was buried in a church structure that was demolished a hundred years later. The land eventually, 300+ years later, was covered by a paved parking lot. Gotta park the cars somewhere.
WHY? Just leave them alone. It's disgusting. When royalty died far away their bodies were dismembered and the flesh boiled off. Carrying a rotting corpse for hundreds of miles, taking months was not viable so they took the bones back to the burial place. ......
I don't understand this morbid fascination w digging up old royal bodies. Is this a Christian thing to do? There is nothing necessary to learn about these poor people. They had their time in the sun, now let them lie in peace. Trying to couch this in terms of learning and history is barbaric and insulting. Simply voyeurism.
we have morbid curiosity. But they’re all the stuff of legends. I know it isn’t probably healthy, but it’s sort of cool the Russians get to see Lenin’s face. I don’t know if he remains a hero to them, though. As an American, I’d go visit Lincoln (well, I have visited his tomb), but it is hard to explain this fascination we have. Even when I go to my father’s grave, I can’t help wondering what he looks like. I pray he looks the same in Heaven.
You are wrong the sovereign has never been covered by the law which is why King Charles I execution was murder as he was above the law the monarch can NOT commit treason, it would leave the crown open to prosecution which is not possible as they can't be tried in there own court the monarch can do no wrong the Tudors were quick at getting rid of it. Crown immunity is only supposed to be for the Crown Ministers Crown. It is pretty well known the monarch is above the law; the only country majorly changed by the Magna Carta is America as it was used to form their written constitution. We don't have one.
Presumably you mean we don't have a written or codified constitution, it's slightly unclear in your comment? We have an uncodified constitution in the UK and most of the Magna Carta clauses have been eliminated from it over the years.
@@jeni040866 We don't have a constitution of any kind in the UK we have custom and will, I've studied the monarchy for 28 years and continue to study as you never stop learning.
@@martinisherwood2854 Yes we do, it's uncodified so it isn't written down in one place like codified constitutions are, customs etc form part of it as do useage, precedent, case law, statutes and and legal instruments. The monarch is a figurehead since it is a constitutional monarchy, the real power for good or bad resides in the legislative body. You should try studying the wider governance of the UK not just the monarchy who are a little cog within it with influence but no actual legislative power.
I will say this again for people in the UK does not have a constitution, and I think I, Jen, if you bet would show you that the monarch still legislates under the Royal Prerogative of Henry VIII power's, and it is how some of us legislation is done today. Power is given to the monarch in different ways, not only the royal prerogatives, which the first Ist Queen Elizabeth used as they trace them back to the start of the monarchy; under the new Marriage Act, some people who want to marry overseas have to ask the monarch. So go find the Act and read it, I just show you anyway all the political power belongs to the monarch there is no Parliaments sovereign next you'll believe that on the state Opening of Parliament the door is shut because of the sovereign, unfortunately you would be wrong it is to do with black rod who was always late nothing to do with the Crown. Now if you watched David Starkey you may learn something I tend to agree with David that the Windsor's are happy to sit back and let democracy continue I am hoping that William will be a head of state in the way they should
