[Red Badger]

Undated photo made available by the University of Leicester, England, Monday Feb. 4 2013 of the skull found at the Grey Friars excavation in Leicester, potentially the long lost remains of England's King Richard III, ahead of an announcement about the identity of the skeleton found underneath a car park last September. Richard was immortalized in a play by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies—including those of his two young nephews, murdered in the Tower of London—on his way to the throne. (AP Photo/ University of Leicester)

Jo Appleby, a lecturer in Human Bioarchaeology, at University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, who led the exhumation of the remains found during a dig at a Leicester car park, gestures at the university Monday Feb. 4, 2013. Tests have established that a skeleton found , including this skull, are "beyond reasonable doubt" the long lost remains of England's King Richard III, missing for 500 years.(AP Photo/Rui Vieira, PA)

[cripplecreek]

Big news in the UK.

[Puppage]

Lo...The King approaches!!

[Carriage Hill]

Helluva spinal curve.

[cotton1706]

That’s really cool!

[donhunt]

Looks to me as a potential victim of Obamacare.

[supremedoctrine]

Yep, that’s him!
It seems even long ago, though, that he had better teeth
than most Englishman do today.
BTW, was the horse found?

[mikrofon]

"Alas, poor Richard - I knew him not well..."

[supremedoctrine]

Yep, that’s him!
It seems even long ago, though, that he had better teeth
than most Englishman do today.
BTW, was the horse found?

[Izzy Dunne]

he is a 17th great-grand-nephew of Richard's older sister.

That makes him also a 17th great-grand-nephew, or a 17th great-grand-son of Richard, doesn't it?

[sneakers]

Wow! Fascinating! Thanks for posting!

[mass55th]

I read about the DNA confirmation here:

The History Blog

[eyedigress]

I thought it was “My kingdom for a nose”?

Oh wait, that was Jerry.

[Tennessee Nana]

"Yorick !!! I knew it was you !!!"

[Patriot Babe]

“a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies on his way to the throne”

1) So this tells us that a perfect burial for a Usurper is a Parking Lot.

2) Trail of bodies? hmmm seals, top brass generals okayyy

So has anyone notice if our usurper is a hunchback?

[AnAmericanAbroad]

His Majesty is pleased.

[agere_contra]

Richard III invented the concept of bail - whereas his treacherous successor Henry VII invented the Star Chamber.

The world would have been a better place without the Tudors.

[SevenofNine]

Sweettt
If they get around to it

How about find out mystery of what happen to his nephew Prince of Tower

[Beowulf9]

Did Thomas Moore describe Richard III as a hunchback? Seems he was right, doesn’t that lend more credence to his story of Richard III as the murderer of the Princes?

Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature,
Deform’d, unfinish’d, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up-
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them-
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,
And descant on my own deformity.
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain this fair well-spoken days,
I am determine’d to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasure of these days.

~Shakespeare~

[TurboZamboni]

I remember that song.

“they paved Richard III and put up a parking lot...”

[dfwgator]

Kings - Steely Dan

Now they lay his body down
Sad old men who run this town
I still recall the way
He led the charge and saved the day
Blue blood and rain
I can hear the bugle playin’

[Chorus:]
We seen the last of Good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to Good King John

While he plundered far and wide
All his starving children cried
And though we sung his fame
We all went hungry just the same
He meant to shine
To the end of the line

We seen the last of Good King Richard
Ring out the past his name lives on
Roll out the bones and raise up your pitcher
Raise up your glass to Good King John