A plaque will commemorate Philippa Langley and her search for King Richard III in Leicester.

The Richard III Museum in Leicester will open in summer 2014. Opening date will be announced in May 2014.

Interesting article about the potential motives and interested parties in killing the Princes in the Tower. With a poll, where you can decide whom you trust (or rather don’t trust) in this whole historical scheeming.

The funeral crown for King Richard III, commissioned by Dr. John Ashdown-Hill, will be shown to the public prior to its final use.

King Richard III on his ‘royal tour’ through England returns to his former home Sudeley Castle.

Monk Bar and Micklegate Bar host two new attractions about York’s royal connections. Monk Bar presents King Richard III, while Micklegate Bar his nemesis, King Henry VII.

Sudeley Castle once again hosts King Richard III. The exhibition there was opened by Philippa Langley, who revealed more detail about her progress with her screenplay about King Richard III:

Ms Langley has also written a screenplay about the real Richard III, and is in discussions with a UK-based director and Hollywood producers.

Channel 4 documentary tries to reconstrue King Richard III’s fighting abilities by testing battle moves with a 26 year old body double suffering from the same form of scoliosis.

Prof. Michael Hicks and Prof. Martin Biddle can’t convince BBC History Extra readers with their doubts about the skeleton discovered in Leicester. Over 85 % are convinced that King Richard III has been found and support the University of Leicester’s conclusion.

Interview by Geeta Pendse (Video)
Is it really true?

“The actor said he would be interested in playing the role of King Richard III if a film is made about his life and death.”

A well put together account of arguments to qualify Prof. Michael Hicks’ statements against the University of Leicester.

Preparations for King Richard III go on in Leicester Cathedral …

Leicester prepares for King Richard III. Cathedral preparations go on …

Radio interview about the autenticity of King Richard III’s skeleton. Prof. Martin Biddle casts doubts over the identification researched and revealed by the University of Leicester in a variety of acribic and detailed researches.

Broadcast of the last episode of “The Plantagenets. The Death of Kings”. Professor Robert Bartlett will introduce the bloodiest time of the dynasty,
(Monday, 31 March 2014, at 9 p.m.)

The article has a new approach to the whole discussion about King Richard III. Is the skeleton his or not?
In the end the article failes to convince me in its main argumentation. The church relics, Mr. Shariatmadari compares King Richard III’s skeleton with, in our times are scrutinized and evaluated with new methods and the belief in their validity is suspicious to contemporaries. Their value mostly seen solely in a historical context. So exactly what worked for them for centuries, won’t work for King Richard III any longer, at least not in a wider and generally accepted way.

Impressions of seeing King Richard III’s head reconstruction, currently exhibited in Gloucester Museum.

Famous supporters, among them comedian Steve Coogan, are in favour of a York burial for King Richard III.

The article has interesting counter-arguments against Prof. Michael Hicks’ accusations against the results of the University of Leicester.
Though I very much like the argument and the historical knowledge in listing all the descendants of Joan Beaufort, in my view the argumentation falls a bit short to contradict Prof. Michael Hicks, as not only Joan Beaufort’s descendants are of interest in regard of an alternative identity for the skeleton in Leicester, but all female descendants from any ancestor of the female line leading to Joan Beaufort. As a consequence all her mother’s sisters, grandmother’s sisters, great-grandmother’s sisters, etc. would have to be researched if there was an un-interrupted female line up to a last male descendant, who died at the age of around 30 at Leicester in the relevant timeframe. You see, the number of potential relatives, eventually buried in Leicester, becomes quite uncountable.
But in my opinion that is not necessary, because, as the University of Leicester quite brilliantly has shown, the accumulation of different research results, all leading up to the same resolution, prove, what the one mtDNA research can’t prove on its own.