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The Return of Ruthless Richard III

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The Return of Ruthless Richard III

We went a bit over the top in our coverage, last Saturday, of the finding of the deceased of King Richard III. A headline said that it “could prove that he really didn't commit the greatest crime in royal history” – the murder of the princes in the Tower

Richard III is having his cultural moment. Loads of couch-bound citizens devoted a excellent part of the weekend to the series “House of Cards”—all thirteen hour-long episodes of which were released en masse on Friday.

The figure that has really provoked the worldwide press coverage is not the historical Richard III but, rather, the fantastic villain that Shakespeare fashioned from Thomas More's slanders and unleashed in the early

A band of Richard advocates known as the Richard III Society helped underwrite the discovery of the deceased, hoping for a reassessment of Richard's guilt and new focus on achievements during his two-year reign, such as instituting bail and lifting

But now we have Richard III's tale as written on his bones: a forensic romance. Not just the deep gap in his skull where the halberd penetrated the helmet, but the marks of the subsequent indignities and mutilations inflicted on his corpse. It was

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