A few months ago I had asked myself why statue of Richard I was outside Houses of Perliament. Answer appears contained in the following quote on Wikipedia.“The reputation of Richard ... has fluctuated wildly. The Victorians were divided. Many of them admired him as a crusader and man of God, erecting an heroic statue to him outside the Houses of Parliament; Stubbs, on the other hand, thought him ‘a bad son, a bad husband, a selfish ruler, and a vicious man’. Though born in Oxford, he spoke no English. During his ten years' reign, he was in England for no more than six months, and was totally absent for the last five years.”
—John Gillingham, Kings and Queens of Britain: Richard I[20]
I can now enter the new year with one less thing clogging up my mind...
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