Now that the body found under a car-park in Leicester has definitely been identified, the fact that the circumstances surrounding the last moments of life have been ascertained, that Shakespeare, his fellow writers and certain historians should posthumously eat humble pie, there is a discussion underway regarding a potential state funeral for King Richard III. He died 22 August 1485, so 528 years on the funeral will have to be Catholic in Leicester and suitably marked at Westminster Abbey in London.
As this country seems so obsessed with a modern day unelected head of state, I sincerely hope that the House of Windsor will show suitable respect on this occasion to the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. If they feel this is of little significance they will, in my view, place these Windsor people in very poor light indeed.
