In her first play, historical novelist Philippa Gregory "seeks to offer a nuanced portrait of the last Plantagenet ... detach the real-life figure of Richard III from the playwright's 'foul ...

"That has all come out of the interest in Leicester's past that started with the Richard III discovery. "And you don't often get to see a king being buried - that was a moment of history being ...

Richard was a son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and his wife Cicely Neville and was born on 2nd October 1452. His brother Edward IV became King in 1461 ... was crowned in the Abbey as ...

Langley was the secretary of the Scottish branch of the Richard III Society, who spent eight years looking for the remains of the king and “ultimately convinced the authorities to allow her to d ...