Royal row erupts over Steve Coogan film about Richard III
msn.comThe Lost King, will reduce their role in the extraordinary historical find. One member of the University of Leicester team, Professor Turi King, carried out key DNA studies, providing conclusive evidence and spending hours in the laboratory. “I had to start from scratch, both on the historic work and the modern-day samples from Richard’s living relatives,” said the Canadian-British geneticist. “We are all so surprised that the filmmakers didn’t check with us.
I showed their location scout around and offered to explain, as did the university, but no one took us up. ”Since his death, Richard III’s defenders, known as Ricardians, have argued that he was never the scheming malcontent that his influential detractors, such as Sir Thomas More and Shakespeare, portrayed.
Neither was he the murderer of “the princes in the tower”. Historians also disagreed over the fate of his missing corpse: had it been hastily interred after the humiliation of a public parade or thrown into the nearby River Soar?
And even when his skeleton was eventually found, the citizens of Leicester and York clashed over where he should be laid to rest.
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