How about an Aintree burial for horse-searching monarch?
It appears York, London and Leicester are desperate to obtain King Richard's bones.
The historians wrote when he fell off his horse while fighting at the Battle of Bosworth.
As he lay on the ground, Henry, Earl of Richmond, approached him.
As Henry drew his sword to administer the coup de grace, Richard is quoted as saying "a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse".
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These were the poor king's last words.
I feel his bones should be interred at Beechers Brook, at Aintree.
There he would be at peace at last with the horses he wished for before meeting his maker after spending all those years under a council car park. At least he would get his last wish – the galloping of the horses' hooves in the distance, then jumping straight over his royal bones – what a fitting end.
They could even change the name from Beechers Brook to Dick's Dyke.
John M Cox, Leicester.
3 Comments
by LikeItaLot
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 11:17PM
“Kohelet, that is sick”
by Stoned
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 11:14AM
“What a cracking idea John and I particularly like the suggested change of name!”
by Kohelet
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 11:07AM
“Also surrounded by the poor horses who have died in that same place over the years in the misnomer that is the Grand National”