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Here are 10 things you need to know about Britain's lost

king.
1. Richard III, born on October 2 1452 at Fotheringay Castle
in Northamptonshire, was the last Yorkist king of England

2. His father was Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and his

mother Cecily Neville and one of the major causes of the
Wars of the Roses was his father's conflict with Henry VI,
something which dominated his early life
3. In 1460 his father and older brother died at the Battle of
Wakefield and the next year his brother Edward, became
Edward IV and created him Duke of Gloucester
4. The brothers were exiled in 1470 when Henry VI was briefly
restored to the throne but upon their return to England the
following year, Richard contributed to the Yorkist victories at
Barnet and Tewkesbury that restored Edward to the throne
5. Edward died in April 1483 and Richard was named as
protector of the realm for Edward's son and successor, the
12-year-old Edward V

6. Richard became involved in a power struggle with Edward's

queen, Elizabeth Woodville, about the young king who was
the rightful heir but too young to rule and he managed to
imprison Edward V and his younger brother, Richard, in the
Tower of London, and the two boys were never seen again
7. An act of Parliament declared the nephews illegitimate,
supposedly due to an earlier, secret marriage of Edward IV
that invalidated his marriage to Elizabeth, and Richard III was
crowned on July 6, 1483
8. A rebellion raised by the Duke of Buckingham in October
quickly collapsed, but Buckingham's defection, along with his
supporters, eroded Richard's power and support among the
aristocracy and gentry

9. In August 1485, Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, who was a

Lancastrian claimant to the throne landed in South Wales and
engaged Richard in battle on Bosworth Field on August 22.
Although Richard possessed superior numbers, a number of
his key lieutenants defected and, refusing to flee the
battlefield, Richard was killed in battle and Henry Tudor took
the throne as Henry VII
10. Records say that King Richard – immortalised by
Shakespeare as a hunchback who died after uttering the line
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” - was buried
under the choir of Leicester’s long-demolished Greyfriars
church, now the site of a car park used by social workers.