The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III's Lost Burial Place and the Clues It Holds (33 page)

(
From left to right
) Sir Peter Soulsby, Sarah Levitt and Dr Phil Stone with facial reconstruction of Richard III

Facial reconstruction of Richard III with sixteenth-century portrait in background

The original modest tomb design in Yorkshire stone: 7' long × 3'6 wide × 2'3 high

Richard’s book of hours – showing his date of birth at Fotheringhay (2 October 1452), written in his own hand

Fotheringhay Church

Tomb of Richard’s father, Richard Duke of York

Baynard’s Castle – the London residence of Cecily Neville, where Richard stayed during much of his Protectorate in 1483

Cecily Neville’s seal – both her piety and her political acumen would be inherited by her youngest son

Portrait of Richard’s older brother, King Edward IV

Middleham Castle – where Richard was brought up and later a favourite residence of his as Lord of the North

Richard’s signature as Duke of Gloucester and one of his mottoes (
tant le desiree
– ‘I have longed for it so much’) at the bottom of his manuscript copy of
Ipomedon
– the story of ‘the best knight in the world’

Nottingham Castle – enlarged by Richard, and where he stayed before the Battle of Bosworth

Richard’s opponent and rival to the throne, Henry Tudor

The likely battlefield area – remnants of the marsh, with the high ground of Crown Hill rising above it