Richard the Third
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Finding Richard III
The burial place of Richard III is lost to time, no more than a legend. In the 1950s, an excavation in nearby Grayfriars Street found nothing. Philippa Langley has spent eight years working on Finding Richard. She directs diggers to this spot where they find foundations of a lost church. As the excavation progresses, a skeleton is revealed. All the historical clues are present. The historians will need a DNA test to confirm what the circumstantial evidence suggests. They have found the king.
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