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Richard III: All about the villain who's back from the dead

Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013, 0:38 IST | Agency: DNA
Daniel Pinto
@pintodna

DNA tells you everything you need to know about the 15th century monarch whom history has painted as the ultimate bad guy.

  • Crusader king Richard I 'the Lionheart', the son of Henry II , as a bronze, brandishes his sword outside the Palace of Westminster
  • The skeletal remains found by archaeologist Mathew Morris during an archaelogical dig to find the remains of King Richard III in Leicester, central England
  • The bones of the king
  • King Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower of London by Paul Delaroche
  • A painting by Henry Payne in 1908 of the historically apocryphal scene in the Temple Garden, from Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part 1, where supporters of the rival factions pick either red or white roses
  • English actor David Garrick as Richard III just before the battle of Bosworth Field. His sleep having been haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered, he wakes to the realisation that he is alone in the world and death is imminent. The painting, David Garrick as Richard III (1745), is by William Hogarth.
  • The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878
  • King John on a stag hunt
  • The Tudor Rose
  • Philippa Langley, Originator of the
 
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