Fw: Fw: [Richard III Society Forum] The Court of the Midnight King

Debbie Andrews
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From: "debbie andrews" <mobbiuk@...>
To: "lpickering2" <lpickering2@...>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: The Court of the Midnight King


> Thanks Lorraine I knew someone had cited the DNA reason I wrongly assumed
it
> was her majesty.
> thanks for the other two book titles Jessica will certainly try to get
> those.
>
> Debbie Andrews
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> From: "lpickering2" <lpickering2@...>
> To: "debbie andrews" <mobbiuk@...>
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 6:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: The Court of the Midnight
King
>
>
> > No Debbie - the request was refused by the Queen herself, not because
> > of DNA study was in its infancy, but because she wasn't particularly
> > keen on a Royal Tomb being disturbed.
> >
> > IIRC her son Edward Windsor (Earl of Wessex) even made an approach to
> > his mother about it (there would have been another telly programme in
> > it for him, as he's already been involved in one about the Princes in
> > the Tower) but it was still 'no go'.
> >
> > The present Dean (Dr Wesley Carr) has also flat-out refused and
> > as he'd be one of the Queen's advisors on the matter(since the Abbey
> > is a Royal Peculiar), then until they both vacate their jobs, I don't
> > think anyone's going to get very fair on requests to open the Urn.
> >
> > Incidentally, the UK end of the R3 Society who aren't particularly
> > keen to pursue this at present, and the Committee *has* cited the
> > current state of DNA study and forensic science as one reason for
> > hanging fire on the issue of examining The Bones.
> >
> > Regards - Lorraine
> >
> > < well Tim I of course knew it wouldn't be as easy as picking up the
> > phone and saying excuse me your majesty.
> > > the reason I was asking was that the request was made several years
> > ago and was refused I think because at the time DNA was in its
> > infancy.
> > > from the works I have read there is strong doubt as to whether the
> > remains are the originals of what was found anyway.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: tim
> > > To:
> > > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:57 PM
> > > Subject: Re: The Court of the
> > Midnight King
> > >
> > >
> > > It isn't as straightforward as ringing the Queen and saying by
> > the way do you mind if we do a bit of digging around at Westminster
> > Abbey>
> >
> >
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