The discovery of Richard III's skeleton beneath a council car park in Leicester in 2012 stunned both the academic and wider ...

Richard was a son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and his wife Cicely Neville and was born on 2nd October 1452. His brother Edward IV became King in 1461. On his death Richard was ... in the ...

Richard III the king found under a council car park ... of the procession of the kings mortal remains to the site of his death at Bosworth Battlefield through the streets of Leicester and to ...

But his heart was delivered to the Abbess at Fontevraud in France, burial place of some of his ancestors, as Henry had wished. Henry's large tomb is of Purbeck marble ... 1996 On an examination of the ...

The bones, placed in a plain coffin, were handed over by the University of Leicester to the Diocese of Leicester and then taken on a procession past the site of his death at Bosworth, before ...

Richard III was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field. After the battle Richard's corpse was taken to Leicester and buried without pomp. In 2012 ...