![]() ![]() They concluded, eventually, that it was indeed Richard III.īut the quest to discover Richard’s skeleton, and perhaps redeem his reputation, has earlier and equally unlikely roots. In 2012, archaeologists excavated a skeleton with spinal curvature and battle wounds near that spot in the parking lot. ![]() She then spent years persuading a University of Leicester team to do the dig and a group of Ricardians-people convinced that Richard’s reputation has been unfairly maligned for centuries-to fund it. Langley, by her own account, was walking through an empty parking lot, when she felt a chill and decided that she was standing on Richard’s grave. The discovery of the monarch’s remains after half a millennium was an improbable archeological feat, sparked in part by a writer named Philippa Langley, who was researching a screenplay about him. ![]() On Thursday, March 26th, nearly five hundred and thirty years after his death, King Richard III will be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral. ![]()
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