"The festival's titular monarch still gallivanted about the fairgrounds, belting out musical numbers, cavorting with the queen, and presiding over jousting tourneys. Men in kilts and women bound in bustiers arrived in their Comic-Con best. Some came garbed in the raiment of elves. Others summoned knights, fairies, wizards, or warlocks as they ogled pricey broadswords and ponied up $18 for a pint of "King Richard's Ale.""
"In a lawsuit filed in Plymouth County Superior Court, fair owner Lancelot Entertainment Boston has accused its former landlord, 98-year-old Alphonse D'Amico, of a secretive plot to evict King Richard's Faire and supplant it with his own rival kingdom. Or, as the lawsuit has it, D'Amico pretended to negotiate a lease renewal while "secretly orchestrating a competing enterprise and trying to handicap Lancelot's ability to stop him." The enterprise in question: a "knock-off version of the Faire at the Faire's old site.""
King Richard's Faire has operated for nearly fifty years as a summer Renaissance festival featuring jousting, costumed attendees, performers, and themed merchandise and food. The fair moved to a nearby venue but retained traditional attractions, period costumes, and themed concessions. The current owner, Lancelot Entertainment Boston, filed a lawsuit alleging former landlord Alphonse D'Amico secretly planned to evict the fair and open a competing, imitation event at the old site, seeking permits and telling officials he would run the Faire. The lawsuit alleges D'Amico misled Lancelot during lease negotiations. D'Amico has denied many of the claims.
Read at Boston.com
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