Richard III found!

  Certainly a major day today as the remains found in a car park in Leicester in September of last year have been formally identified as those of King Richard III. A part of me does feel a little sorry for Richard; true he most likely had his two nephews, King Edward V (12) and Richard, Duke of York (10) murdered in the Tower of London and did eliminate other opponents to his position (most notably Lord Hastings) but in an era of instability was this necessarily a bad thing given the circumstances? From a modern perspective it is without a doubt a crime but it can be argued that Richard was merely serving the interests of his country.
  History, as has been constantly said, has been unkind to Richard III, Shakespeare vilified him as a hunchback who plotted and murdered his way to the throne, but in reality, apart from his taking of power, he was an exemplar king who was one of his brothers, King Edward IV, most loyal subjects back when he was Duke of Gloucester.
  Due to the shortness of his reign, we will never know entirely how good a king he would have been, but hints do come across in his donations to the church and his prowess as a battlefield commander. History is written by the winners and had he won the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, then English history would have been remarkably different (no Tudors, potentially no reformation etc. although this is all conjecture). I may be sounding like a bit of a massive supporter of Richard. I not an ardent supporter, I just like to see a bit of balance and today's news means that he can, quite literally, finally be laid to rest. True, there hasn't been any new evidence come to light in regards to his murdering of the two princes but the crime happened so long ago that it will, in my opinion, be impossible to find out what happened. In the meantime, we can at least bury the last Plantagenet monarch of England in peace.