• The DNA tests of the bones found in a Leicester car park reveal that they DO belong to Richard III beyond all reasonable doubt. These findings were announced at a press conference on February 4th and broadcast on the same day in a documentary on Channel 4. • This is the only biography of Richard to incorporate the results of the discoveries under the car park in Leicester. This B-format paperback edition will include an extra chapter analyzing the findings. If it is Richard"s skeleton, it proves once and for all that Richard III was a hunchback. • PHILIPPA GREGORY (author of The White Queen) endorsement: ‘A believably complex Richard, neither wholly villain nor hero’ will appear on the front cover. Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of Gloucester and, later still, King Richard III. Richard’s character has been besmirched as often as it has been defended, and the arguments between his detractors and supporters still rage after several centuries. Was he a ruthless hunchback who butchered his way to the throne, a paragon of virtue who became a victim of Tudor propaganda, or (as seems more likely) something in between? Some would argue that a true biography is impossible because the letters and other personal documents required for this purpose are simply not available; but David Baldwin has overcome this by an in-depth study of his dealings with his contemporaries. The fundamental question he has answered is "what was Richard III really like".