So too were the king's fans in the Richard III Society, set up to re-evaluate the reputation of a reviled monarch. Richard was immortalized in a play by William Shakespeare as a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies â€" including those of his
LEICESTER, England (Reuters) - A skeleton with a cleaved skull and a curved spine dug up from under a car park is that of Richard III, archaeologists said on Monday, solving a 500-year-old mystery about the final resting place of the last English king
Meanwhile, the bones that have just been confirmed as those of Richard III â€" the last Plantagenet king, the last monarch to die on a battlefield, whose death ushered in the upstart Tudors â€" lay quietly in a calm room on the
Graffiti adorns the painted green wooden gates to the windswept car park in Leicester, the grey concrete overlooked by a local authority building badly in need of redecoration.
At the time, I wrote archaelogists were guessing they were the bones of Richard III. Today, the speculation has ended! Experts from the University of Leicester said DNA from the bones matched that of descendants of the monarch's family. Lead
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