No doubt you have all heard by now that the long-lost remains of Richard ‘My Kingdom for Horse’ III – the last of the England’s Plantagenet kings the final loser in the Wars of the Roses (and the last English king killed in battle) – have been positively identified. The bones were found last summer – underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England.
LONDON—Researchers on Monday said the long-lost remains of King Richard III have been found and identified—after sitting under what is now a parking lot in the English Midlands for more than 500 years.
The findings appear to solve a centuries-old mystery involving one of England’s most-storied rulers, who has remained in the public fascination through a Shakespeare play and Hollywood movies.
Which story I found rather amusing, because of this detail that we were shown in the course of a Mercat Tour of “The Secrets of The Royal Mile” during our second day in Edinburgh: 
That yellow marker in the middle of car-park space #23? That marks the final resting place of no less a Scottish luminary than John Locke, one of the leading proponents of the Scottish Enlightenment (and, thus, also among the early inventors of the whole modern world).
Apparently they are reserving space 23 – much observant Jews save a seat for Elijah at the Passover Seder.
I wonder what he’ll be driving…??
You can see the rest of our second day in Scotland here; or the video slideshow here.