QuoteA maligned monarch found under a parking lot was buried in pomp Thursday, as Britain embraced comeback King Richard III, a long-reviled ruler who is experiencing a remarkable posthumous renaissance.



Royalty, religious leaders and actor Benedict Cumberbatch joined archaeologists, Richard's distant relatives and curious Britons for a service in Leicester Cathedral that saw the king's bones buried with dignity, 530 years after his violent death.



"Richard's posthumous reputation has been less than glorious," Gordon Campbell, the University of Leicester's public orator, noted with understatement about a man whose name was long a byword for villainy.



Twenty first-century Britain has enthusiastically embraced the story of the medieval king whose battle-scarred skeleton was found under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012.



In his sermon, Bishop of Leicester Tim Stevens said the discovery of the skeleton "has broken open not just a car park, but a nation's story."



Stevens said Richard was found just 40 metres from where he was being reburied — but his journey from ignominy to honour was evidence that "reputation does not have the last word, for Richard or for any of us."



Scientific sleuthing — including radiocarbon dating, bone analysis and DNA tests — confirmed the remains belonged to the long-lost king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth, near Leicester, in 1485.



The victor, Henry Tudor, went on to reign as King Henry VII and founded the Tudor dynasty.



Richard was buried, without a coffin, in a church that was later demolished. For centuries his image was defined by William Shakespeare's Richard III: a hunchbacked, power-hungry tyrant who murdered his two young nephews because they were rivals for the crown.



Some historians argue that Richard was a relatively enlightened monarch whose reign between 1483 and 1485 saw reforms including the introduction of the right to bail and the lifting of restrictions on books and printing presses.



The coffin was made by Canadian-born Michael Ibsen, a 17th great-grandnephew of Richard whose DNA helped identify the parking-lot skeleton.



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QuoteA maligned monarch found under a parking lot was buried in pomp Thursday, as Britain embraced comeback King Richard III, a long-reviled ruler who is experiencing a remarkable posthumous renaissance.



Royalty, religious leaders and actor Benedict Cumberbatch joined archaeologists, Richard's distant relatives and curious Britons for a service in Leicester Cathedral that saw the king's bones buried with dignity, 530 years after his violent death.



"Richard's posthumous reputation has been less than glorious," Gordon Campbell, the University of Leicester's public orator, noted with understatement about a man whose name was long a byword for villainy.



Twenty first-century Britain has enthusiastically embraced the story of the medieval king whose battle-scarred skeleton was found under a parking lot in Leicester in 2012.



In his sermon, Bishop of Leicester Tim Stevens said the discovery of the skeleton "has broken open not just a car park, but a nation's story."



Stevens said Richard was found just 40 metres from where he was being reburied — but his journey from ignominy to honour was evidence that "reputation does not have the last word, for Richard or for any of us."



Scientific sleuthing — including radiocarbon dating, bone analysis and DNA tests — confirmed the remains belonged to the long-lost king, who died at the Battle of Bosworth, near Leicester, in 1485.



The victor, Henry Tudor, went on to reign as King Henry VII and founded the Tudor dynasty.



Richard was buried, without a coffin, in a church that was later demolished. For centuries his image was defined by William Shakespeare's Richard III: a hunchbacked, power-hungry tyrant who murdered his two young nephews because they were rivals for the crown.



Some historians argue that Richard was a relatively enlightened monarch whose reign between 1483 and 1485 saw reforms including the introduction of the right to bail and the lifting of restrictions on books and printing presses.



The coffin was made by Canadian-born Michael Ibsen, a 17th great-grandnephew of Richard whose DNA helped identify the parking-lot skeleton.



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Quote from: "Annie"I did my family tree a few years ago and discovered that I'm a descendant of the Tudors! And Henry the 8th and all the Henry's lolol Oh and Caeser, I'm a descendant of him too....woooo

Quote from: "Annie"I did my family tree a few years ago and discovered that I'm a descendant of the Tudors! And Henry the 8th and all the Henry's lolol Oh and Caeser, I'm a descendant of him too....woooo