There was a press conference this morning, about a skeleton dug up from a car park in Leicester.
In the conference they confirmed that they have found the skeleton of Richard III. From the Guardian website:
Richard Buckley returns to announce the team’s conclusion.
He says that it is their academic view that “beyond reasonable doubt the individual exhumed at Grey Friars on September 12th is indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England”.
Now we’ve found him, maybe we could work on his reputation. I’m strangely excited about this, Richard is my favourite English king.
I’m off to re-read Paul Kendall Murray’s biography of Richard. Or I would be if I was at home rather than work.
(If you’re wondering about the picture, it’s Middleham, which was his castle and base before he was king.)
Nic Dempsey 