The bed in which Richard III spent his final night
The bed in which Richard III slept the night before the Battle of Bosworth exists today.
On Leicester’s medieval High Street there was once a timber-framed building called the Blue Boar Inn. It’s known that King Richard III spent his final nights here before the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
The King reputedly could not sleep in strange beds, and so brought his own wherever he stayed for the night. So his bed travelled with Richard’s party to Leicester, where it was set up in the Blue Boar Inn. After his death the bed stayed at the Blue Boar, passing from tenant to tenant, until it was eventually acquired by Leicestershire Museums Service, where it is today still on display.
Ben Jackson went to Donington Le Heath Manor House in North West Leicestershire to investigate.
