By Slanted Light

Well - late to the party, but I have to chip in here, having met the hysterical Langley woman...

The documentary was a huge disappointment. I am a lifelong RIII fan. I have loved him forever and a day. I also loved Tey's Daughter of Time, not least because it is a very readable bit of detective fiction - but it is still fiction. To me, the disappointment was with the dumbing down, and the absolute determination to make him into a misunderstood hero. He wasn't. He was a medieval king, and their values and morals were very different to ours.

Daughter and I met a few of these people when we went to the dig. Our guide was very professional, and was trying very hard to stay objective - and at the same time, his enthusiasm shone through. The whole set up by the university was great. The other people we saw were also very professional and very guarded in what they said.

Langley was prancing around in a right state, going up and down the queue asking us all to be patient as it was such a fantastic discovery. Er... yes, that's why we were there. She had obviously decided then that the remains were Richard's. In fact, my daughter referred to her as 'that skippy woman' when I was chatting to her about all this yesterday.

Anyway, the web site is much better. Here, have a couple of photos as well *g*





I shall go to the reinterment, even if I'm at the back of a queue of 50,000 people *g*