A skeleton found last year under a council car park in Leicester has been shown “beyond reasonable doubt” to be that of King Richard III who died in the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, experts have concluded.

A detailed forensic examination of the skull and bones, including DNA tests, has solved the 528-year mystery of what happened to the body of the last Plantagenet King, claimed the University of Leicester, which funded the archaeological dig.

Radiocarbon dating has placed the age of skeleton within the time frame of Richard’s death, and the skull and bones bear the brutal hallmarks of being cut down on a medieval battlefield.

The man also suffered severe spinal curvature, which would have made his right shoulder higher than the left. This is consisted with the Shakesperian notion that Richard, the “hunchbacked king”, had a deformed stature - but there were no signs of the fabled withered arm.

Scientists said that the age of the man at death was between 30 and 33, which is consistent with the age of the 32-year-old king. He also had a slender, almost feminine physique, which matches historical descriptions of Richard.

He's Spartacus • 4 hours ago

Ugly, disfigured and reviled, Leiecester is a city in the East Midlands.

De javu yet again!

I could have sworn I'd read this before in the last year or 2.

Apparently, he had a knife in his left buttock whatever he was up to. But as you know, I'm not one for gossip, ducky.

Gilly wrote:
What you trying to say? You wanna fight?!

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Then Zombie Skeleton King Richard will rule wisely from his throne of MP skulls, relegating the queen to working in a chip shop.

All Hail Zombie Skeleton King Richard!

And he has a sceptre to keep RA happy.