Richard the Lionheart

And if you want, if you want some spooky bedtime stories for your kids, you go get the, the history, Historia Rerum Anglicarum, or The History of the English, Book V, chapters twenty-two to twenty-four by William of Newburgh.

It's a history of England, right? It's, it's William of Newburgh telling the story from the Normans in ten sixty-six up to the time of Richard the Lionhearted.

So, so these are ghost stories parallel to Robin Hood, you're right.

That's why they're number one.

Sometimes they played leading men.

I mean, George Sanders did play, like, you know, King Richard the Lionhearted, and he was in, um, Children of the Damned as the lead there, and but mostly they played a secondary but incredibly supportive character.

So, like, Claude Rains plays the French police inspector in Casablanca, and I think everyone agrees that the film works on so many different levels, but if you pull out the French police d- inspector, it falls apart.

[laughs] You w- couldn't even imagine that movie without that role.

So courage is all about heart.

It's Richard the Lionhearted.

That's where that comes from.

It's like the most courageous people are coming from here, not from here.

It's just perfect.

Of course, Richard the Lion-Hearted is a lion.

Oh.

Which obviously means that his family has to be a lion.

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in, um, the, uh, heart of Richard the Lionhearted is also in the cathedral at Rouen.

Whoa.

The heart?

So yeah, his heart.

The actual heart?

The actual heart of Richard the Lionhearted is in the cathedral at Rouen.

And we were in Dürnstein this, on our trip to Austria-

Hello in a language none of us have learned.

[laughs] Richard the Lionhearted.

I'm just the EI hire.

[laughs] That's great.

He was rugged-looking and likable, not too rugged for the spindly limb to identify with, and he oozed, even though obviously dead, virility at every pore.

He was probably the finest-looking corpse since Richard the Lionhearted.

Neither must one overlook the singing commercials.

Possibly the catchiest of these, a really cute little thing, was achieved by jazzing up the funeral march.

Oh, but isn't that rather a Belden tradition, to marry young? I don't know what you mean.

My daughter, Judy, she had to write a composition on the Crusades last week, and she brought a book home from the library, oh, quite a small book, called A Friend of King Richard the Lionhearted.

It was full of stories of the Belden family.

Ah, I trust you satisfied yourself that we were worthy of the alliance? Well, there were one or two things that rather surprised me.