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February 5, 2013 03:15 am GMT

The High-Tech Miracle That Found King Richard III


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On Bosworth Field he lost his life, England's most infamous monarch, the supposed killer of princes. His body was taken from the battle and rushed by monks, the Red Cross of the Middle Ages, to the nearest monastic institution, the Gray Friary in nearby Leicester.

There it was buried, perhaps in an unmarked grave to prevent tomb-robbing retribution from the new king, the Welsh usurper Henry Tudor. There the body remained, despite rumors that the Tudor king had exhumed it and used his coffin as a horse trough.

Richard's body was undisturbed 50 years later, when Henry Tudor's son and his minister Thomas Cromwell started knocking down monastic buildings, including the…
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