Richard III's scarred skeleton becomes a battlefield for academics

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5. I don't think there's too much doubt that York would be better.

The problem is that we are in for an awful lot of bullshit which will probably involve his character being assasinated again. Yes, he was a bastard, but so were all medieval kings. Life was nasty, brutish and short. If he'd made an extra five yards at Bosworth Field we'd be arguing about where to bury Henry Tudor, and Richard would be lauded above Henry VIII.

The bottom line is that he was an important figure in English history and deserves a proper grave. Wether or not he gets the sort of respectful burial he would have approved of will tell us how far England has come from the Wars of the Roses.