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Experts find remains of England’s King Richard III

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This photo made available by the University of Leicester, England, Monday of the earliest surviving portrait of Richard III in Leicester Cathedral. Richard was immortalized in a play by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked usurper who left a trail of bodies — including those of his two young nephews, murdered in the Tower of London — on his way to the throne.

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This photo made available by the University of Leicester, England, Monday shows the remains found underneath a parking lot in Leicester, which have been declared "beyond reasonable doubt" to be the long lost remains of England's King Richard III, missing for 500 years.

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He was king of England, but for centuries he lay without shroud or coffin in an unknown grave, and his name became a byword for villainy. On Monday, scientists announced they had rescued the remains of Richard III from anonymity — and the monarch's fans hope a revival of his reputation will soon follow.