Dead King Found in Car park

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Excavations at a small private car park in the city of Leicester (pronounced "Lester") revealed the sleleton of a small man with a deformed spine.

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On the basis that King Richard III, the last of the royal Plantagenet family, was killed by the forces of Henry Tudor at the battle of Bosworth in 1485, the skeleton was given a thorough examination by the University of Leicester. The age of the skeleton was confirmed by carbon dating and then DNA tests compared to current relatives (an easy family line to trace, unlike "Jones"). Richard III was known as "crook-back Dick as he had a badly curved spine.

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The car park was on the site of an ancient church. Now there will be an argument as the University and locals want him re-interred in Leicester Cathedral

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whereas some enthusiasts have called for burial in York or in London.

Henry Tudor was to become the infamous Henry VIII, not a nice man in spite of what the history teachers tell us. Richard II was quite a good monarch, it was propaganda from Henry's court that propagates the opposite story even today. Consider how many wives he had and the fate of some of them. I beleive Henry VII died of Syphilis.

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Anyway, don't go digging up your ancestors just to see if they were who they were supposed to be.