The University of Leicester have announced  that they have uncovered ‘new truths’ about King Richard III’s Plantagenet lineage in Identification of the remains of King Richard III. What do the latest DNA results show? They show that Richard III had a different Y-chromosome than his supposed living male-line relations in the modern Somerset family – illegitimate descendants of the Beauforts and legitimised descendants of the Plantagenets. What does this prove? It proves that somewhere between Edward III and the present … Continue reading What do King Richard III’s Latest DNA Results Really Prove?