The remains of King Richard III were reinterred in Leicester Cathedral a decade ago today (Wednesday, March 26). The ceremony was preceded by a sombre procession through the city, which attracted huge ...

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was crowned in the Abbey as Richard III on Sunday 6th July 1483. The day before he and his Queen Anne (Neville) rode in procession from the Tower of London to Westminster.

In her first play, historical novelist Philippa Gregory "seeks to offer a nuanced portrait of the last Plantagenet king", in contrast to Shakespeare's "depiction of a deformed outsider who settles ...