Whodunnit...

Quite a lot of excitement today, well on the TV there was because of a skeleton that had been found in a car park. No not a murder, well not a present day one anyway. You may have already heard  of it on your local radio or TV station.

So what is all the excitement over some pretty old bones. After all this is England and finds like this turn up in many excavations.

Well the reason is that the remains have been ‘formally’ identified as that of King Richard III

According to ‘Stuff’

"It's the academic conclusion ... that beyond reasonable doubt the individual exhumed at Grey Friars in September 2012 is indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England,"  

The skeleton had 10 wounds, eight of which were to the head clearly inflicted on the battlefield. A photograph showed a sword had cleaved away part of the rear of the skull. A metal fragment was found between Richard's vertebrae. Slain in a bid to keep his crown at the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, immortalised by the words: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

Its sounds pretty gruesome, but after the battle, the victor, the future King Henry VII, had Richard's naked body exposed to the people  to show the battle was won, ending the bloody 30-year civil conflict known as The Wars of the Roses between the houses of York and Lancaster.
Other wounds were consistent with being caused after death when his body was taken from the battlefield to the nearby city of Leicester on the back of a horse. All of the wounds were from swords or daggers and it appeared his hands had been bound. 

So there you have it. All they need to do now to restore the king's reputation is to prove that somebody else was responsible for the deaths of the little princes in the tower.