Remains found in Leicester may be those of Richard III - Hugo Rifkind takes a wry look at what the medieval king would make of today’s royals
Now is the long winter of my lying quite happily in the dark, made into a slightly jarring summer of being under a crappy marquee while some boffin dusts my ribs with a toothbrush.
“Look at his spine!” shouts an academic. “It’s definitely him!”
“Rudely stamp’d!” agrees another. “Deform’d, unfinish’d, not shaped for sportive tricks!”
You want to try lying in a hole for five hundred years, chum. See how straight your spine is. Believe you me, when I announced, “plots I have laid” in that speech Shakespeare wrote up, I never expected to have to add, “in”.