No clothes for the coronation

I read somewhere that Richard and Anne purchased no new clothes and Anne made no travel plans for the coronation of Edward V. The inference behind this was that Richard had never meant to have Edward crowned. Do any of you more knowledgeable types know any more about this?

Thanks Gillian

Maybe I should refrain from asking these questions till after the re-interment. However I'm just trying to inject a bit of objectivity into a week where I'm actually over-whelmed with emotion.

Many of the posts on here are just too touching for words. I may have to give up wearing mascara till Friday!

Gillian

Maybe I should refrain from asking these questions till after the re-interment. However I'm just trying to inject a bit of objectivity into a week where I'm actually over-whelmed with emotion.

Many of the posts on here are just too touching for words. I may have to give up wearing mascara till Friday!

Gillian

Maybe I should refrain from asking these questions till after the re-interment. However I'm just trying to inject a bit of objectivity into a week where I'm actually over-whelmed with emotion.

Many of the posts on here are just too touching for words. I may have to give up wearing mascara till Friday!

Gillian

I know what you mean Sharon about being surrounded by the disinterested, my husband thinks I have a screw loose at the moment. I think it's very unreasonable not to allow you holiday. I'd think about a 'sickie' for tomorrow. It's a once in a lifetime event.

I'm not religious but hopefully Richard's spirit is hovering somewhere and is now realises just how many people genuinely care for him and his legacy. I wonder how many new members the society will have by the end of the month?

Gillian

Thanks Eileen, that sounds to me like they were preparing for the event. I think it was a TV documentary that I got the information from. I wonder if anyone remembers which one. Although having been very pro Richard for about 25 yrs it's only in recent months I've begun reading a lot more information on line. And I do like to read various opinions, not just those that I agree with. Consequently certain things do niggle. So many people on here have such a wealth of information, it's great to be able to tap into it.

Cheers Gillian

I know what you mean Sharon about being surrounded by the disinterested, my husband thinks I have a screw loose at the moment. I think it's very unreasonable not to allow you holiday. I'd think about a 'sickie' for tomorrow. It's a once in a lifetime event.

I'm not religious but hopefully Richard's spirit is hovering somewhere and is now realises just how many people genuinely care for him and his legacy. I wonder how many new members the society will have by the end of the month?

Gillian

Gillian wrote..'I do like to read various opinions .....'

I read somewhere that Richard and Anne purchased no new clothes and Anne made no travel plans for the coronation of Edward V. The inference behind this was that Richard had never meant to have Edward crowned. Do any of you more knowledgeable types know any more about this?

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ÿ Couldn't agree more Gillian! I was denied leave from work this week so unable to attend anything in person, and it's probably just as well as I can't stop sobbing! I've had to record all the interment programmes as I'm just too emotional at the moment to even think about watching them, and reading the wonderful posts on here and the pictures on facebook are just adding to it! I'm wearing clothes of blue and murrey as respect all week, although nobody I work with are remotely interested in history and the significance is missed, but that isn't my point. It's my respect for Richard. Scarborough (where I live) has found a document showing that Richard was intending to make Scarborough a county in its own right and that is being displayed in the art gallery from Saturday until the end of the year, so I'm going along to see that at some point, It isn't usually on public display as it's so fragile. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: gillian.schifreen@... [] To: Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:30 PM Subject: Re: No clothes for the coronation

Maybe I should refrain from asking these questions till after the re-interment. However I'm just trying to inject a bit of objectivity into a week where I'm actually over-whelmed with emotion.

Many of the posts on here are just too touching for words. I may have to give up wearing mascara till Friday!

Gillian

ÿ Hello, Sharon - My friend Peter Colley, who wrote a blub for the back of my book, was born in Scarborough and told me about the disappeared statue, which was a big think in his young life. Do you know anything about it? N Nance Crawford
www.NanceCrawford.com

But where was Lady Anne at this time? In the north, of course. She didn't arrive in London until the first week of June. She had the whole month of May in which to prepare whatever she wished to wear for her nephew's coronation. Are people saying this was impossible in Yorkshire? After living there for ten years, would the duchess not have long-established suppliers for her every need, and in particular, did she not patronize the most skilled of local people who made clothing, footwear, trimmings, and every kind of accoutrement required by the duchess and her ladies in a magnificent ducal household?

Her husband had gone south because he had a job to do there. But it would be wrong to imagine Lady Anne was so cut off in the north that she never owned a coronet or other robes or regalia appropriate to her appearance at court, or at times of state occasions, parliament, feast days or ceremonials. Was she some kind of country mouse whose attire for this event could be made only by London couturiers? Plus of course all those who dressed her in Yorkshire had every tiny measurement on record, knew her every preference for colour and fit (a little more ease in the bodice, a little less length in the sleeve &). How sensible to place such tasks in the hands of those she knew and trusted.

But where was Lady Anne at this time? In the north, of course. She didn't arrive in London until the first week of June. She had the whole month of May in which to prepare whatever she wished to wear for her nephew's coronation. Are people saying this was impossible in Yorkshire? After living there for ten years, would the duchess not have long-established suppliers for her every need, and in particular, did she not patronize the most skilled of local people who made clothing, footwear, trimmings, and every kind of accoutrement required by the duchess and her ladies in a magnificent ducal household?

Her husband had gone south because he had a job to do there. But it would be wrong to imagine Lady Anne was so cut off in the north that she never owned a coronet or other robes or regalia appropriate to her appearance at court, or at times of state occasions, parliament, feast days or ceremonials. Was she some kind of country mouse whose attire for this event could be made only by London couturiers? Plus of course all those who dressed her in Yorkshire had every tiny measurement on record, knew her every preference for colour and fit (a little more ease in the bodice, a little less length in the sleeve &). How sensible to place such tasks in the hands of those she knew and trusted.