These highfliers are following a King. A week or so ago, having been discovered under a car park in Leicester, the “mortal remains” of King Richard III were taken in a cortege from the University of Leicester to Leicester Cathedral via the villages around the site of the Battle of Bosworth, where Richard had been killed. This is in our neck of the woods and so @shepherdmanswife and I decided to see the cortege pass through the village of Dadlington, where we established ourselves at a place on an embankment at the edge of the churchyard above the lane where the cortege would enter the village - @shepherdmanswife in the churchyard, and me the other side of the hedge, precariously balanced on a steep bank above the lane. Eventually a beacon was lit, the church bells started tolling, dogs started barking, and the cortege appeared, escorted by Police motorcyclists and led into the village by two mounted knights in armour, all greeted with just quiet applause with many people throwing white roses, the symbol of the House of York, onto the vehicles. This micro light aircraft was following the cortege at a discrete height and distance, without disturbing the atmosphere, no doubt the pilot giving a lift to a photographer. We never thought of that…
