Royal Badass Hacked to Death, Buried, Exhumed, Reburied

[Andy_S]

Dick III is getting an appropriate reburial:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... attle.html

Richard Plantagenet was, in fact an ale-swilling, steak-eating medieval motherfucker and no error.

Accounts of his death at Bosworth Field suggest that:
He led an armoured cavalry charge into the midst of the enemy, hoping to off Henry Tudor in personal CQB;
In the melee, he was cut off, de-horsed and surrounded;
His bodyguard* was hacked in half (!) with a halberd (which tells you a thing or two about medieval rucking)
Richard himself - helmetless - fought a last stand before going down under a welter of swordblades. The mortal blows, his skull suggests, were all to the head.
Then he was stripped nekkid, slung over his warhorse and exited stage left, to be eventually buried under a public toilet.
(Editors! This one's for you: "Royal Scrapper Under Public Crapper")

Remarkably, Richard had a severely twisted spine - which did not stop him being a formidable warrior.

Salutations, oh fearsome king!
Your final journey will be one of stern dignity!
And if we had a spanking, hard-charging, fire-eater like YOU in charge today - instead of a pouffe like Cameron who has probably never even been in a pub fight let along a bloodstorm like Bosworth - the kingdom would not be facing threats from pipsqueaks like the current Czar of the Russians!

*Kevin Coster: Are ye reading this?