english king

[egordon]

which king of england's bones were unearthed in 20th century and, I believe,currently rest in the vaults of a bank in greater london?

[moonface]

Great King Simba, and it's my vault so hands off

[Octavius]

In the 1930s  bones, believed to be those of King Edward the Martyr, were found in the ruins of King Alfred's abbey in Shaftesbury, Wilts. These are now kept in a bank vault in London by the family of the then owners of the abbey ruins.  Althougn there is conflicting evidence that says his bones remain in the grave.

Born: c. 963
House of: Wessex
Ascended to the throne: July 8, 975 at Kingston-upon-Thames
Died: March 18, 978 at Corfe Castle
Buried at: Wareham reburied Shaftesbury 

Elder son of King Edgar, he succeeded to the throne as a boy of 12, and in so doing, aroused rival claims to the throne from his even younger half-brother, Aethelred II, the Unready. He was murdered by members of Aethelred's household at Corfe Castle in 978.