Richard III and DNA testing

[Maggie.]

Probably, Shane. I missed quite a bit as I was trying to get my PC to load the live BBC coverage on their website, which wasn't interrupted by the political stuff.

I must re-read Josephine Tey's 'Daughter Of Time'.

[Jane Masri]

I see he's going to be reinterred at Leicester Cathedral.  I wonder why not at Westminster Abbey? That's going to be a wonderful historic moment 

Jane

[Greensleeves]

Fascinating stuff!  Apparently Richard III is to be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral in accordance with archaeological practice which is to reinter disturbed human remains in consecrated ground nearest to where they were dug up.  Will be good for Leicester certainly - already they are announcing the opening of a visitor centre to coincide with the reinterrment ceremony. 

[Redroger]

Going to watch Channel 4 tonight.Huhne or his ex wife or both deserve to be brought to justice, but it does seem to me that the entire Political Judicial Establishment is sistemically corrupt! Pity, as there is no real alternative was it not Churchill who described democracy as the "least worst system available"?

[Erato]

I would be interested to see how they traced the genealogical line from Richard's sister Jane down to the Canadian carpenter, Ibsen.  Has that been published?

[Mike in Cumbria]

Some of the evidence revealed how brutally his body had been treated after being killed. For example, it sounds as though after his body had been slung over the back of a horse, somebody had thrust a dagger deep into his backside. Other stab wounds in his chest had been inflicted after his armour was removed. Sounds very like ritual humiliation of a dead leader. It couldn't happen now of course....

[groom]

I would be interested to see how they traced the genealogical line from Richard's sister Jane down to the Canadian carpenter, Ibsen.  Has that been published?

http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/media-centre/richard-iii/press-conference-4-february/key-scientific-information/evidence-from-the-genealogical-study

[Jane Masri]

That sounds like a good practice Greensleeves.....burying remains nearest to where they were found....
Now, if only Leicester University would turn their attentions to my research...

Jane

[LizzieW]

I would be interested to see how they traced the genealogical line from Richard's sister Jane down to the Canadian carpenter, Ibsen.  Has that been published?

I've just heard on the radio that someone else, independently of the link we'd all heard about, had traced another descendant and this "new" descendant and the Canadian man are also linked by DNA.

Lizzie.

Modified - reading the link groom posted, it seems that the Leicester researchers set out to find another female link, so not independently as related on the radio.