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Richard III – The Unburied King

Olga Hughes February 18, 2014

Leave the Lady Alone, She Should Be Buried …cried the newspaper headlines in 1965. Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of...

Olga Hughes February 13, 2014

“We believe it is right that King Richard III stays in Leicester, and that his remains are reburied in our...

Olga Hughes February 11, 2014

The sculpture commissioned by Leicestershire County Council and chosen from five shortlisted entries as part of the Cathedral Gardens project...

Olga Hughes February 4, 2014

“buryed…without any pompe or solemn funerall…in thabbay of monks Franciscanes at Leycester” Polydore Vergil Today marks a full year since...

Olga Hughes January 31, 2014

The city of Leicester is not letting the battle for King Richard III’s remains dampen their enthusiasm. Work commenced on...

C S Hughes October 6, 2013

Richard The Third as portrayed by Aneurin Barnard in the TV adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s The Cousins’ War trilogy, The...

Jamie Adair October 4, 2013

Richard III may not have killed the princes in the tower, but it doesn’t mean he was Mr. Nice Guy...

Jamie Adair October 4, 2013

Have we swung too far the other way? Richard III has swung from being the deformed vilified monster in Shakespeare...

Olga Hughes October 3, 2013

Five centuries on and even the very bones of Richard III are causing controversy. In 2009 screenwriter and secretary of...

Olga Hughes October 3, 2013

In The King in the Car Park documentary, the world watched as the skeleton discovered on the very first day...