Skeleton Buried in U.K. Parking Lot is King Richard III
Battle-Scarred Skull of Suspected King Richard III Revealed
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One of the daughters of Richard Wydeville, was his wife, and I am a direct descendent of another daughter along with tens of thousands of other Americans. Thus, many Americans are descendents by marriage of this rogue king.
Richard III was the last of the Plantagenet dynasty, a dysfunctional royal family in their own right, who fought a series of stupid wars which greatly weakened England.
One of the blessings of being out of power was that so many of the Plantagenet dynasty turned to religion and became the forebears of so many of our Puritan forebears.