It's appeared on our news today that funding is now being sought to excavate
a grave in a Winchester church to see if it contains the remains of Alfred
the Great. He reigned from 871 to 899. They think there are five skulls and
other bones in the grave, but it will be even more difficult to find a
living descendant to provide a DNA sample for comparison.
York Minster has written to the Queen to request that Richard III be
reburied in York Minster because he was crowned there. his son is buried
there and several other reasons, but permission was given to exhume the
skeleton at Leicester on the proviso that it was reburied in Leicester and
by August 2013.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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