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The remains of King Richard III as discovered in situ at the site of Grey Friars Priory, Leicester Funeral cortège bearing Richard's modern coffin. The remains of Richard III, the last English king killed in battle and last king of the House of York, were discovered within the site of the former Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, England, in September 2012.
Philippa Jayne Langley MBE (born 29 June 1962) [6] is a British writer, producer, and Ricardian, who is best known for her role in the discovery and 2012 exhumation of Richard III, as part of the Looking for Richard project, for which she was awarded an MBE.
The excavators found Greyfriars Church by 5 September 2012 and two days later announced that they had found Robert Herrick's garden, where the memorial to Richard III stood in the early 17th century. [ 252 ] [ 253 ] A human skeleton was found beneath the Church's choir .
The film reconstructs the search and discovery of Richard's remains by Philippa Langley, played by Sally Hawkins, which was nearly erased when a U.K. university took credit for the discovery.
The mtDNA was compared with two known descendants of Richard III's older sister, Anne of York, [24] and on 4 February 2013 it was confirmed that the mtDNA matched, that the radiocarbon agreed, and that the characteristics of the bones and the nature of the head wounds were all entirely consistent with this being the remains of Richard III. [25]
LONDON (AP) - Scientists say there is "overwhelming evidence" that a skeleton found under a parking lot is that of England's King Richard III, but their DNA testing also has raised questions about ...
Richard made global headlines 12 years ago when his skeletal remains were found by British historian Philippa Langley in a parking lot in Leicester, a city around 100 miles north of the U.K.'s ...
King Richard III Visitor Centre is a museum in Leicester, England that showcases the life of King Richard III and the story of the discovery, exhumation, and reburial of his remains in 2012–2015. For a long time, the burial place of Richard III was uncertain, although the site of his burial was assumed to be in a Leicester car park.