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archaeologicalnews:

Doubt still remains as to whether the remains of a body found beneath a Leicester car park are those of the Plantagenet king Richard III, but debate is already beginning as to whether the last Yorkist monarch should be brought ‘home’.

Mitochondrial DNA tests are about to be carried out on the skeleton, unearthed by a team from Leicester University and the Richard III Society. If the remains prove to be those of the long lost monarch, the next question will be: what to do with them?

Twitterers are already suggesting that the body should be given a State funeral. But where?

Two major organisations which have exhaustively researched and promoted the ‘true’ name and history of Richard, which they assert is at odds with the traditional Shakespearean ‘evil hunchback’ depiction, are expecting much debate at their forthcoming conferences. Read more.