“God save King Richard!” A cry rings out in the bright spring air as the simple oak coffin of Richard III is carried away from the tower block-filled campus of the University of Leicester for the ...

Richard III has a terrible reputation. He was the last English King to fall in battle, his body dumped ignominiously in an unmarked grave. Shakespeare painted him as a hunchbacked villain. History ...

First came the shocking discovery of a medieval English king’s burial site in a parking lot. Then came the unearthing of a mysterious coffin, near where the king was buried. Archaeologists theorized ...

King Richard III is on his last royal tour. Until his reinternment in Leicester Cathedral on Thursday March 26, the remains of the infamous villain are being paraded to the crowds as he journeys ...

LONDON — Crowds thronging the roads and prayers and hymns chanted as a monarch is laid to rest, with British pageantry and traditions on full display. King Richard III died more than 500 years ago and ...

Sir Antony Sher unveils the life of Shakespeare’s “Richard III,” comparing the historical king’s reputation with the play’s ...