“God save King Richard!” A cry rings out in the bright spring air as the simple oak coffin of Richard III is carried away from the tower block-filled campus of the University of Leicester for the ...

New museum tells the story of Richard III's family, battlefield death and the uncovering of his bones Medieval king was found buried beneath a municipal parking lot in UK city of Leicester Thousands ...

Richard III has a terrible reputation. He was the last English King to fall in battle, his body dumped ignominiously in an unmarked grave. Shakespeare painted him as a hunchbacked villain. History ...

King Richard III likely perished at the hands of assailants who hacked away pieces of his scalp and rammed spikes or swords into his brain as the helmetless monarch knelt in the mud. So suggests a ...

Leicester archaeologists have revealed the bones of Richard III came within inches of destruction. A team from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have discovered during a ...

Richard III’s skeleton, dug up from a carpark in Leicester in 2012, is currently the subject of a legal dispute about where he should be buried. In one corner is the University of Leicester, whose ...

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King Richard III is on his last royal tour. Until his reinternment in Leicester Cathedral on Thursday March 26, the remains of the infamous villain are being paraded to the crowds as he journeys ...