The Guédelon project is possibly one of the most abitious architectural projects within living memory. Within our everyday lives we are constantly reminded of our ability to create impressive buildings in a variety of styles, but Guéldon is different. Set within a forest in a disused quarry in central France, for the last 15 years a dedicated team has worked steadily to construct a Thirteenth Century castle entirely using the techniques and expertise of this period. This highly ambitious undertaking is all the more impressive considering that many of the construction methods now emplyed on the site have not been used for for hundreds of years, indeed many have been revived by those working on the project and for this alone they deserve our admiration.

From the research findings released by the team at the Richard III Project we discovered that there was a strong possibility the body recovered from the Grey Friars Priory  was submitted to at least one humiliation injury after death. The injury described is that of having a dagger of some form rammed into his pelvic area with such ferocity as to leave a mark in the bone of the pelvis. We should not really be surprised by this. Only a few years previously we know that Richard's father, the Duke of York, and his elder brother Edmund were both submitted to far worse humilitiation after the Battle of Wakefield in 1460. Their heads were struck from their bodies and carried to the nearby city of York, where they were placed on spikes above Micklegate Bar, the Duke of York's head adorned with a crown of paper or straw in cruel mockery.