Advice on Book Choice, please

Can anyone recommend a book on Richard, the Princes, etc etc suitable for an 8 year old who has started to take an interest since a visit to Bosworth, and now the Greyfriars dig? Thanks in advance.

> Can anyone recommend a book on Richard, the Princes, etc etc
> suitable for an 8 year old who has started to take an interest
> since a visit to Bosworth, and now the Greyfriars dig? Thanks in
> advance.

I'd suggest the Osprey book on Bosworth, although I think the current
edition still focuses on the old, wrong site. Lots of pictures, too.
Osprey does quite a lot of lovely volumes on battles, arms and armour
of the period, & c.

best wishes,
Marianne

Interesting piece by the MP, Chris Skidmore.  Here's the relevant section:

"The issue now remains, if the bones are those of the Yorkist king,
what should be done with them, and how should Richard' be re-buried? As an anointed king, should he therefore be granted a state funeral, and
if so, where might his remains be interred? (Already the debate has
begun to rage between Leicester , York or Westminster Abbey, where
Richard's wife Anne Neville is buried). There are noteworthy precedents
abroad, most recently the reburial of Tsar Nicholas II in 1998, yet in
Britain there are thorny issues that need to be addressed. Since the Act of Settlement in 1701, should a Catholic monarch be granted such an
honour, and if so, what form would the funeral rites take? In a
parliamentary motion, I have suggested that Richard be buried
appropriately', yet evidently there is room for discussion.

"It
seems that this discussion may already be academic: apparently a
Reburial Document' has been prepared by the organisers of the
excavation in case Richard was found, outlining a quiet and strictly
private reburial using a requiem mass, followed by a later Service of
Celebration' which would be open to the public. Nevertheless, it throws
up the question of how a joint funeral ceremony should be conducted,
something which I intend to pursue with the Church Commissioner, Sir
Tony Baldry MP.

"Richard, who took his book of Hours to the
battlefield with him and whose chantry foundations demonstrate his
commitment to the cult of sainthood, was clearly a devout Catholic; what licence then, should be made for the king's own beliefs, without
compromising the Anglican settlement? Perhaps the closest example
available is the case of St Edward the Martyr, whose remains were
unearthed in 1931, yet took until 1984, when after lengthy negotiations, his bones, having been stored in a cutlery box in a bank vault in
Woking, were finally buried by the Russian Orthodox Church in Exile at a site owned by the St Edward Brotherhood, on the agreement that the
saint's feast days were observed itself testament to the problems that
reburials can cause.

"As for a state funeral, an honour bestowed
upon anointed kings and queens, four Prime Ministers, Nelson and Darwin, the option remains an interesting one to debate; what is certain, that
if the bones turn out to be Richard, we should mark a remarkable, often
bloody and controversial chapter in our nation's history, with a
ceremony fit for a king."

Whole article can be found at http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2012/09/richard-iii-a-ceremony-fit-for-a-king/

Jonathan

Thank you, Marianne. I will look it up now.

--- In , Dr M M Gilchrist <docm@...> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone recommend a book on Richard, the Princes, etc etc
> > suitable for an 8 year old who has started to take an interest
> > since a visit to Bosworth, and now the Greyfriars dig? Thanks in
> > advance.
>
> I'd suggest the Osprey book on Bosworth, although I think the current
> edition still focuses on the old, wrong site. Lots of pictures, too.
> Osprey does quite a lot of lovely volumes on battles, arms and armour
> of the period, & c.
>
> best wishes,
> Marianne
>