The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #149389   Message #3475631
Posted By: Rapparee
04-Feb-13 - 09:57 AM
Thread Name: King Richard and bosworth field
Subject: BS: Last Plantagenet King Found in Leicester
Will this cause a crisis for the British monarchy? After all, the Tudors forcibly seized the throne from the Plantagenets.

LET'S RESTORE BRITAIN'S PROPER RULERS!! TOSS THE TUDORS!!!!

LEICESTER, England (AP) -- He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled.

Now things are looking up for King Richard III. Scientists announced Monday that they had found the monarch's 500-year-old remains under a parking lot in the city of Leicester - a discovery Richard's fans say will inspire new research into his maligned history.

University of Leicester researchers say tests on a battle-scarred skeleton unearthed last year prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that it is the king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and whose remains have been missing for centuries.