Richard III: Facial reconstruction shows king's features

BBC ^ | 5 February 2013 | Staff

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The unveiling of the reconstruction was attended by Michael Ibsen, Richard's 17th generation nephew, who also provided DNA for tests on the bones

Richard III died aged 32 in the Battle of Bosworth

[Red Badger]

GGG Ping!........

[IronJack]

His kingdom for a horse ...

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Thanks largely to Shakespeare, this unfortunate monarch gets one of the biggest bum raps in history along with people such as Joe McCarthy, Pius XII, and Mary Surratt.

[DManA]

Hew was king therefore he was an a-hole.

this unfortunate monarch gets one of the biggest bum raps in history

[afraidfortherepublic]

That just looks like a portrait of Richard Ibsen.

[Red Badger]

Who?......

[afraidfortherepublic]

His 17th great nephew, pictured next to him.

[Red Badger]

His name is Michael..........

[afraidfortherepublic]

They look ike twins. The eyes, the brow, the chin, the shape of the face.

[Red Badger]

Why does that remind me of the Duchess of Cornwall?...........

[afraidfortherepublic]

Yes, Michael. Reading too fast.

[Vigilanteman]

Whether scoundrel or martyr, Richard III was the last of the Plantagenet kings. The Tudors sought to erase every vestige of Plantagenet influence and revoked titles and offices to every Plantagenet who wouldn't pledge absolute fidelity to the Tudors.

The first title was not restored until the Tudor rule ended with the death of Elizabeth II roughly a century and a half after Bosworth Field. Even then, it was a minor title to a minor Plantagenet, Lord Aston of Forfar.

He's in my mother's family tree as a cousin or uncle, not direct. The interesting thing is that the purge of the Plantagenets actually accomplished two positive things:

1. Introduction of meritocracy to fill the scores of government and religious offices left vacant by the Plantagenet purge.
   
2. Driving many of the deposed Plantagenet's into what would grow into competing schools of religious thought which planted the seeds of Puritanism. Oliver Cromwell basically acquired his seat in Parliament from modest family wealth left over by deposed Plantagenet forebears. And scores of our Puritan founding fathers can trace their ancestry back to Plantagenet royalty, including those of my mother.

[afraidfortherepublic]

He’s much better looking than the Dutchess of Cornwall. He looks like Peter Johnson Jr., the legal analyst from Fox News Channel.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Richard III was one S.O.B., there’s no doubt about it.

[GreyFriar]

Worth reading and also the back stories on the Daily Mail about the archeological dig.

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Here is an even better comparison......

[Vigilanteman]

Actually, it was 142 years between the battle death of Richard III at Bosworth field (1485) and the restoration of the first title for a Plantagenet (1627).

[Red Badger]

I was referring to the horse.........

[Red Badger]

The Princes in the Tower would most likely agree with you.........