King Richard III's remains important to some, but eye-roll inducing to others

Behold the face of Richard III. A model of the visage of the last of England's Plantagenet rulers has been unveiled in London, just 24 hours after mitochondrial DNA testing revealed that human remains discovered beneath a

DNA tests on the skeleton discovered under a car park in Leicester in the UK last autumn show that the remains are indeed those of Richard III – arguably the most reviled king in English history. Richard III was hacked to death in 1485 at the Battle of

Perhaps the final ignominy in the troubled reign of Richard III is this: The monarch's bones have been found buried under a parking lot in the city of Leicester, England. The skeleton was discovered in September, its spine deformed in a manner

On Bosworth Field he lost his life, England's most infamous monarch, the supposed killer of princes. His body was taken from the battle and rushed by monks, the Red Cross of the

The figure that has actually 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