As King of England, Richard III was not well-loved.
Scoliosis gave the young king a curved spine, which the superstitious and uninformed of the day took as a sign of evil.
Shakespeare referred to Richard III as a hunchback — “a lump of foul deformity” — and connected the physical aberration as also a moral defect.
The young king’s bones were recently discovered buried beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England. A large hole in his skull is thought to be the result of a spear. The makeup of the bones show a diet…
A king done wrong
