The Last Days of Richard III and the Fate of His DNA

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by John Ashdown-Hill


  39. Muriel Stokes (Mrs Brown), Richard III’s niece in the fifteenth generation. (Photograph courtesy of Jeff Ibsen)

  40. Joy Brown (Mrs Ibsen), direct descendant in the sixteenth generation (and in an all-female line) of Richard III’s sister, Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter. (Photograph courtesy of Mrs J. Ibsen)

  41. A tentative plan of the Franciscan Priory in Leicester, based on the excavations of August 2012, and on plans of similar priories. ‘X’marks the site of Richard III’s grave.

  42. Richard III’s grave, showing the position in which his body was found. The feet were missing, due to nineteenth-century trenching. The skeleton in this photograph is not the original.

  43. Facial reconstruction, based upon Richard III’s skull.

 

 

 


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