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Richard III discovery: news and resources round up

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Richard III discovery: news and resources round up

There are differences of course: Leicester's dead guy, Richard III, belongs to a very different past era from Osama bin Laden (who met his end in Abbottabad) – it was no less brutal but the distance of time has allowed it to be converted into picturesque

We went a morsel over the top in our coverage, last Saturday, of the finding of the body of King Richard III. A headline said that it “could prove that he really didn't commit the greatest crime in royal description” – the murder of the princes in the Tower

"For God's sake," moaned a monarch in a Shakespeare tragedy, "let us sit upon the ground, and tell depressing tales of the death of kings." Here's one. The ghost of Richard III — at least, the troubled memory of his small reign — has not slept easily

At a push conference at the University of Leicester on Monday, a team of scientists and archeologists announced that a skeleton found under a parking ration was that of Richard III.

There are differences of course: Leicester's dead guy, Richard III, belongs to a very different past era from Osama bin Laden (who met his end in Abbottabad) – it was no less brutal but the distance of time has allowed it to be converted into picturesque

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