So cool!

I've been following the story from the beginning and I find it absolutely fascinating!

No really, yep!

I love this stuff.

If you have a lot of British ancestors you may have a collateral relationship, but probably not a direct one. His one legitimate child died young. He's credited with several illegitimate children, but there's no evidence any of them had children.

our discontent?

Aristus? ... Anybody?

and for the record, I am way into this!

Really amazing, and a lot more interesting than the Super Bowl.

The entire Bay Area has jumped on the Richard III bandwagon.

Historical figures always interest me.

Now he'll get a proper burial.

Good luck with the DNA test if you decide to do one!

I’m supposedly a descendant of Ethelred the Unready’s.



I’m also supposedly descended from the god Woden/Odin, via euhemerism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euhemerism#Euhemerism

I don't really don't believe these claims, because there's no DNA to back them up, just some old documents, some or many of which are probably wrong.

Pats fan, I was less excited about this year's SB than in previous years, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't ordinarily find this news about Richard III's bones being found any less interesting.

His defeat at Bosworth Field kicks off my very favorite period of English history...the Tudors.

I can't even count how many books I've read on the wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

Anyway, yeah...this is really really cool stuff.

He must've been in constant pain from walking. No wonder he wanted a horse so bad.

There's a school of thought that holds Richard III was not the meanie Shakespeare painted him. As the last of the Plantagenets, the idea that he was a good guy didn't bode well for Tudor P.R. And Shakespeare was not about to make him a hero and lose Elizabeth's patronage.

Okay, I saw part of the second quarter, which was pretty awesome, but the discovery of Richard III under a parking lot? Damn.

I really don't care for the Super Bowl. Never saw the appeal. On the other hand, British history has always fascinated me.