BEDROCK Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Why would the current Royal Family offer their DNA when they are not related to Richard III? So, if I assassinated the entire royal family, could I be classed as the new king then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Orange Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 So, if I assassinated the entire royal family, could I be classed as the new king then? No, you would be classed as a murderer and would spend the rest of your days in prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEDROCK Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 No, you would be classed as a murderer and would spend the rest of your days in prison. And what gives them a god given right to be called kings and queens then, what a prehistoric notion that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Orange Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 And what gives them a god given right to be called kings and queens then, what a prehistoric notion that is. And this is relevant to a previous king who died over 500 years ago, how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEDROCK Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 So can anyone claim the right to be royal then, or is it some gift that bestows certain blood lines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukjazzer Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Who cares ? Just a load of stinking old bones from a minging old royalist warmonger. Bit like our latter day so called "royal family" ! So no change there ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 So Shakespeare apparently got it wrong,Richard wasn't evil after all. So who murdered the two princes? It appears that the mystery is never going to be solved. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274247/Richard-III-unearthed-princes-tower-stay-buried.html#axzz2Jwem6UWJ There is some evidence to suggest that he was innocent of their murder, and that Buckingham was the real culprit. However, we'll never know, will we? So, if I assassinated the entire royal family, could I be classed as the new king then? Only in 1485, I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 So, if I assassinated the entire royal family, could I be classed as the new king then? Look at the photographs of the skull. That's the sort of thing that would've happened to you had you had a go at him and come second. Unless of course they took you alive, in which case he might've come up with an imaginative reward for attempted regicide. Back to the original question: They managed to get DNA from one of his descendants, so they know who at least some of them are. Why don't they ask his descendants to decide where he should be re-interred? If somebody dug up the body of somebody else who had been killed in a war (and if the site itself was not classified as a war grave) then, if the next of kin of the discovered body were to be identified, wouldn't they have any say in where their relative was re-interred? (I'm assuming that Leicester council would prefer that the place the remains were found should stay as a car park, rather than be re-designated a war grave.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Look at the photographs of the skull. That's the sort of thing that would've happened to you had you had a go at him and come second. Unless of course they took you alive, in which case he might've come up with an imaginative reward for attempted regicide. Back to the original question: They managed to get DNA from one of his descendants, so they know who at least some of them are. Why don't they ask his descendants to decide where he should be re-interred? If somebody dug up the body of somebody else who had been killed in a war (and if the site itself was not classified as a war grave) then, if the next of kin of the discovered body were to be identified, wouldn't they have any say in where their relative was re-interred? (I'm assuming that Leicester council would prefer that the place the remains were found should stay as a car park, rather than be re-designated a war grave.) Using DNA of a living relative was the method used to identify the "Unknown Soldier in the cenotaph in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Is it just me, or has everyone been staggered by not one of the royal family have come forward to provide DNA, absolutely insane. I say our current crop of royal family is just a bunch of free loading imposters, they have no right to be where they are. For the person that came forward to provide DNA for Richard III, surely they should be next in line to the throne. The current royal family have no blood connection to Richard 3rd....why would a DNA sample from them help in any way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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