World & Nation
Nearly 530 years after the death of Richard III in battle, Britain’s high court ruled Friday that the king immortalized by Shakespeare as a misshapen, murderous villain is to be buried in Leicester, the city where his skeleton was found beneath a parking lot in 2012.
May 23, 2014
Scientists identify remains as those of King Richard III
Feb. 4, 2013
Opinion
England’s King Richard III was killed twice: first by his challenger, Henry Tudor, at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and again, in posthumous reputation, by Tudor historians and by Shakespeare, who portrayed the last English king to die in battle as a “bunch-backed toad” and accused him of murdering his young nephews in the Tower of London to become king.
March 24, 2015
He was born with a full set of teeth and grew up to have a hump on his shoulder and a withered arm.
July 17, 1991
Television
Stephen Colbert begs media to give King Richard III some privacy
Feb. 6, 2013
World Now
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Sept. 12, 2012
Science & Medicine
King Richard III’s genome to be sequenced: What we might learn
Feb. 11, 2014
The many faces of Richard III
Feb. 8, 2013
The skeleton of the medieval monarch King Richard III will bear just one final indignity before it is laid, once again, to rest.
A hush descended on the crowd as the oak coffin inched into view.
March 22, 2015