It’s official! Since August 2012, archeologists have suspected that the lost remains of the last English king to be slain in battle, King Richard III were buried a few feet beneath a rather ordinary parking lot in Leicester.

Richard’s ruin was smote upon the fields of Battle Bosworth in 1485 at the tender age of 32, after leading an impromptu cavalry charge against the forces of Henry Tudor. According to eye witness accounts, Richard fought bravely, coming within one sword’s length of Tudor before having his helmet deposited inside his cranium by a Welsh halberdier.

DNA matching linked the remains to known descendants of the fallen king, and carbon dating confirmed that the bones belonged to a man in his late twenties or early thirties, who died in the late fifteenth century.

Had King Richard III been found under a Cape Town city centre parking lot, his estate would have been charged approximately R50 863 612 and 53 cents, give or take a few Rands.

[Source : BBC]