European Royalty discussion

I'm sure a lot of you have seen the news about Richard III's skeleton being found, but in case you haven't here are a couple of links (the NY Times one has a great picture - poor guy really did have a terrible spine problem):

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/wor...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02...

I've been geeking out on this all day. Amazing news!

Here's a face reconstruction

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-...

Thanks for sharing! I hadn't heard yet, so I get to read all about it this morning.

Samita - love your comment :-)

Oh! I am still dorking out! :)
I was shocked by how crippled his spine appeared. So many historians have claimed that Shakespeare made up his deformities to please the Tudor monarchs. I believed the historians, and was speechless by the bone reconstruction.

If only the princes from the tower could be found... The truth of Richard III is one of those things we can never really know. He is at the top of my most mysterious of historical figures list...

What an unbelievable find!!!

Brittany B. wrote: "If only the princes from the tower could be found..."

There's been discoveries in the past that were suspected to be the princes but no DNA analysis has been done.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_...

Robin wrote: "Brittany B. wrote: "If only the princes from the tower could be found..."

There's been discoveries in the past that were suspected to be the princes but no DNA analysis has been done.

http://en.w..."
Thanks!! :)

Sara W wrote: "I'm sure a lot of you have seen the news about Richard III's skeleton being found, but in case you haven't here are a couple of links (the NY Times one has a great picture - poor guy really did hav..."

There's also a great documentary on YouTube called The King in the Car Park - about 1 hour 15 minutes but terrific!!!