Richard III: The King in the Carpark - History Documentary

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  @juliee.7072 · 4 years ago

  Imagine some poor sod going for an MRI scan and asking if the machine is safe and being told "it's perfectly safe, the last person who used it was Richard III."

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• JO

  @jonathanconnor8190 · 5 years ago

  He may have been a King of England but he still has 500 years of car parking fees to pay!…

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  @dcdx8966 · 1 year ago

  Everyone’s calling her dramatic which isn’t wrong but Jesus her passion and project led to finding an English king and rewriting history. It’s an amazing achievement

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  @rociomiranda5684 · 4 years ago

  Scoliosis contracts the torax so that often people have trouble breathing. This man had an advanced form of scoliosis, yet he rode, trained, fought, charged armies, all the while wearing armor. He was a true badass. People of the past were tough indeed. Also, if that detail was true, other things may be true also. I don't believe in monster Richard or in angel Richard. He was a medieval prince and they were ruthless in politics and war. They had to be. Richard was a man of his time, a warrior who would not flinch at bloodshed, neither better nor worse than other medieval and Renaissance rulers. More fascinating than most, of course.

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• MU

  @musicloverlondon6070 · 3 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8QDa1zuUd4&amp;t=1673">27:53</a> - What a surreal moment that was - watching a cardboard box containing Richard III&apos;s remains being draped in a royal standard and then squashed into the back of a van next to a Marks &amp; Spencer&apos;s carrier bag! Funny old world, isn&apos;t it.

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• DR

  @DrGarri · 2 years ago (edited)

  Philippa Langley&apos;s humbleness is as impressive as her passion, not only for history, but for her desire to correct an injustice against a human being, no matter that he died 500 years ago; this lady really, really made an enormous impression on me, I whish most people would have a 1% of her passion and involvement for the work they do. &nbsp;This was a most fascinating documentary.

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• MS

  @msinvincible2000 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Isn&apos;t it amazing how everything came together? Not only there was an amazingly determined person, not only was it strangely easy and fast to find, but also if they had tried to do this 30 years later, there wouldn&apos;t have been any more descendant to provide the DNA to identify the remains. And in the same time, they found the perfect body double of Richard (in a time where people with such important scoliosis undergo operation), who is passionate about historical reenacting and passes many weekend on the field of Bosworth!... It was really as if Richard III decided he wanted to be found, in the best and perfect time

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• KE

  @keiraroberts2113 · 4 years ago

  Obviously in hindsight we know covering the box of bones with the royal standard was a great gesture, but I do understand the osteologist’s refusal and hesitance to allow it given the then uncertainty. It would have been very embarrassing and as she said, inappropriate, to have done that and it wasn’t even him. Lucky it worked out. This story is absolutely crazy, it’s so cool.

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• ET

  @ethanhigley2845 · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8QDa1zuUd4&amp;t=1681">28:01</a> only medieval king to have ridden in a modern vehicle 😂✌🏻

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• DU

  @Dunbardoddy · 3 years ago

  Philippa Langley led the search for Richard III in a council car park in Leicester through her original Looking For Richard Project. Philippa conceived, facilitated and commissioned this unique historical investigation. Following seven and a half years of enquiry, she identified the likely location of the church and grave, instructing exhumation of the human remains uncovered in that exact location. Her project marked the first-ever search for the lost grave of an anointed King of England. She is President of the Scottish Branch of the Richard III Society and in 2015 was awarded Membership of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace.

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• GO

  @gopherfacts6915 · 5 years ago

  The comments are nearly as entertaining as the doc itself. Ms Langley is quite clearly emotionally invested and I can see why some may find her OTT, but if it hadn&apos;t been for her obvious obsessive nature, he&apos;d still be under the tarmac in Leicester. As for the osteologist not wanting to get involved in draping Richard&apos;s standard over the box, she is a dispassionate scientist and should be expected to establish the facts first. Besides, he got a proper funeral in the end.

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• CA

  @catherinespark · 7 years ago (edited)

  Whatever else, I love Philippa for her humanity, her vision, her passion and her spontainaeity - and for bringing that to her projects as a driving force and a source of motivation and inspiration. &nbsp;People would do well to learn from her in that, instead of being cynical and judgemental. &nbsp;If I were her, making the discovery of the century, knowing this would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and probably the proudest moment of my life, I wouldn&apos;t worry about being a bit more authentic, melodramatic and uninhibited than I usually was, or about peoples&apos; opinions of that, or the cameras etc.

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