23-05-2025
Richard III and what may be a great miscarriage of justice
The twisted spectre of King Richard III, a monarch either villainous or horribly maligned, has materialised once more, beckoning Britain to weigh his contested past.
His most recent appearance is due to Philippa Langley, a Ricardian researcher. She argues that her evidence strongly suggests that Richard did not in fact murder the 'princes in the tower', the young Edward V and his brother Richard of Shrewsbury, in 1483: instead, the children survived and went on to lead a rebellion against Richard's successor, Henry VII.
Ms Langley has form in this area, since she was the driving force in uncovering Richard III's remains in 2012 in a Leicester car park, on the ancient site of the Greyfriars church where the Yorkist king was entombed after his
