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Repatriation of Historical Objects

The hon. Gentleman is a fellow soul with an interest in his nation's history. I am aware of the burial in 1419 of what could be Richard II's remains, and it would be interesting to know whether that is so. We have the technology today to find out. In 1685, a Northumbrian king was, sadly from the hon. Gentleman's point of view, defeated at 3 o'clock on Saturday 20 May—I do not know the exact minute—and his body was subsequently taken to Iona, so there may be more than one English monarch interred in Scotland. We may not want to go into the details of why they are interred in Scotland.