How King Richard III Remains Were Discovered and Confirmed 

I could just see her going through airport security. 'So what's in the bag lady?' 'Umm..... King Richard the third'

In that car park for 500 years, must have acquired a fair few tickets

Funny how we forget where we put things...even kings.

Take a shot every time the narrator mentions Canada...

Philippa Langley led the search for Richard III in a council car park in Leicester through her original Looking For Richard Project. Philippa conceived, facilitated and commissioned this unique historical investigation. Following seven and a half years of enquiry, she identified the likely location of the church and grave, instructing exhumation of the human remains uncovered in that exact location. Her project marked the first-ever search for the lost grave of an anointed King of England. She is President of the Scottish Branch of the Richard III Society and in 2015 was awarded Membership of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace.

its so shameful for the maker of this documentary for not mentioning Philippa Langley. the way the university treated and ignored her. Its only because of her they found Richard III.

Not a word of Phillipa Langley’s incredible tenacity in finding his remains?

It would have a better history, and more accurately complete, if they would have included some facts about Philippa Langley, because she was the initiator, and driving force behind this entire discovery. Without her, there would have been no story about the discovery, and confirmation of King Richard III. Philippa Langley is to be forever honored. Doctor George Whitehead

*This entire story is endlessly fascinating.* *Imagine all of the history that has passed over his hidden grave…* 😳

This documentary suggest she was the lead researcher, she wasn't. Philippa Langley from the UK was the lead researcher, it was she through her research that made the discovery. She was there on the day and it is she that recovered the remains under the King Richard III coat or arms. The archaeological approach was the practical excavation of the site AFTER the determination.

I just find the whole find not only incredible but absolutely extraodinary.

With all due respect to the endless and tedious work of those participating in the archeological dig, but shame on those that made this documentary for not giving a very much deserved acknowledgement and credit to Philippa Langley for making this great historical achievement happen to begin with through her commitment and tenacity to make this all happen!

I strongly recommend watching the incredible movie the Lost King after watching this video. People need to know how Philippa Langley started the whole thing and how committed she was in advocating for the excavation that ultimately found Richard III’s remains.

What about Philippa Langley? She should have been recognized as the lead researcher for this dig coz she started the research and actually made the discovery to where he was buried. This is crazy, she didn’t have any big recognition just coz she was an amateur 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Some think it's silly to "parade" the King around after he's been discovered! They obviously don't appreciate their own history or the significance of this great discovery!

FINALLY an American/Canadian that pronounces "Leicester " correctly, it's a bloody miracle Calling it silly is also incredibly ignorant. He is an important part of our history, finding him has proven he DID have an issue with his back, its helped identify how he potentially died, its helped fill in so many gaps surrounding him. He deserved a proper burial and to be remembered like all our other monarchs have been.

Imagine how the surroundings have changed since he was so unceremoniously chucked in that hole.

Imagine being a normal guy from Canada and then the next day having to bury the lost remains of a king.

I think in the movie Sherk 1 there is a Lord name Farquaad he and Richard III had kinda have a similar faces

Cool and interesting. That ultra-secret, unadorned, undecorated, flat box of a coffin was quite underwhelming, though.

This whole thing will never cease to be fascinating to me.

this seems like the sanitized version. what really happened was a woman who was a member of a club called something like, "The Richard the Third Society" (and who was a bit obsessed with him) came there to try to get them to look for him. She was walking across a parking lot there and stopped dead cold. She'd had a PSYCHIC FLASH that she was standing on top of him. So, long story short, she got them to dig and she HAD been standing right on top of him. that's how they found him. she told them to dig, they did, and there he was! It was this one woman who found him. it's unacceptable to leave her out of the story. without her, there wouldn't have BEEN any story.

buried in a Protestant church when King Richard was a Catholic.

The thing is, many people are related to royalty. I even have a royal bloodline in my heritage from my mother's side. I have another who was a knight and very well off / popular back in the 13th century. There are portraits of him and his brother and mother. There are several buildings named after him and tons of his writings that still exist to this day. It is said that at least 500k people in the world right now are related to this man.

The thing I find interesting here, is that Richard III's remains weren't the only ones missing... Many of the Anglo-Saxon Kings' remain missing since they were buried at Glastonbury Abbey, which for centuries has laid in Ruins, so where exactly they're buried is unknown... Æthelstan was buried in Malmesbury Abbey, but following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s ordered by Henry VIII... his Tomb was emptied, and since then, the location of his remains has remained a mystery. Æthelstan's brother Edmund I, and his nephew Edgar the Peaceful, are both buried on the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey... and Edgar's grandson Edmund Ironside is buried somewhere there as well... The Tombs of both Æthelred the Unready and Harold Harefoot were destroyed in the Great Fire of London Henry I was buried at Reading Abbey, but where exactly he was buried is unclear... Stephen was buried at Faversham Abbey, again, exact location of remains is unknown... The Tombs of Henry II and Richard the Lionheart, which are located in Frontevraud Abbey in France, were looted during the French Revolution, and their bones were stolen, and have to this day not been found... Heck, even Edward V is a possibility, he was reportedly killed at the age of 13 in the Tower of London, and some bones that looked to be around his age were discovered in 1674, and reburied in Westminster Abbey, but whether or not they were actually the bones of the young king has remained unknown...

"Oh, really Baldrick? you buried him in a car park????!!!" -Edmund Blackadder

7:58 She's either unaware or apathetic of the historical significance and value and the reason of it.

How to get very drunk 101: take a shot everytime he says canadian and royal

Again people are taking lots of pats on the back and forgetting about the person that worked so hard to get Richard discovered. Philipa pushed and researched for years. Everyone told her it wasnt going to happen and she was wrong. I am related to Richard. He grew up at our family castle of Middleham. I always felt he should have been buried there since he loved it so much. I hear there is stone from Middleham used in his memorial

Give the proper thanks to Phillipa !!!!! NEVER take away the passion of the original finder.

give him back to York where he belongs not remain a prisoners of those that killed him

He was not villain king there is no proof for the spin that was put on him by Shakespeare and it was done to reinforce the lies told about him by the tudors

It makes me sad thinking of all the cars driving over him all those years, poor Richard, may He rest in peace now....

It took a king to find a king.

This documentary: About a British king killed in Britain in a British war and has been buried in Britain. The Narrator: _CANADA_ Canada didn't even exist when Richard 3 died!!

Fun fact - after this reburial in Leicester, Leicester City won 7 of their last 9 Premier League games to survive relegation, and then won the league the next season.

Henry must be turning in his grave At least we remembered where that was

all credit belongs to Philippa Langley.

King Richard was a Catholic and should have been re-buried as a Catholic.

Pls give due credit to the one who pushed to do this find - Ms. Philippa Langley! It's so cringey when people are credit grabbers. She pushed for this when other people thought she was crazy.

Michael seems so classy and royalty with his serene personality.

No mention of Phillipa Langley Who was the actual person who lead the charge to find Richard the 3rd’s gravesite

What an awesome family to belong to. One must be truly honoured to be part of such a monumentous part of history.

Interesting and great job finding him!

I found this very interesting...especially when they reconstructed his head!

Finally, the perfidious act of a GOOD man, falsely painted as a bad man, has been rectified. As Richard himself would have most appreciated, JUSTICE has been done. Let us give thanks to Phillipa Langley, who made this wondrous discovery possible. Along with the discovery of Richard's remains, we now know that Richard did NOT murder The Princes, and that Richard was a GOOD man, most concerned with true justice. Historians are neither professional nor amateur, but simply historians. Thank you Phillipa Langley, Historian.

God bless Canada and its wonderful people!!💖💖💖💖💖

This was just great ! Enjoyed it .

Amazing that they were spot on, he wanted to be found.

Jeez, how many times can this guy reference Canada? ;)

No mention of Phillipa Langley at all? She and the Richard III society researched the King - his burial and the area of his burial. She got the dig going. Why not give her name a mention- credit where it’s due.

Amazing that Leicester City FC won the Football League after the King was reburied there. The chances of which were next to none. And further more, York City FC (Richard being the last House of York) were extinguished from football league entirely in the same year

one would think a little bit of credit might be given to Phillipa Langley and Dr. Johnathan Ashdown Smith who did ALL of the research which made any of this possible. look at the academics scrambling to take all the credit they can.

A DNA analysis company said that I am a descendant of King Richard the III. But he never had any children so it must be a relative of his (assuming it's true)

I love archeology and history !!

Reading Shakespeare must be amazing for him now. WOW.

Royal mystery eh ? How about trying to seriously find out what happened to the princes in the tower ?

i followed everything on tv about this dig with baited breath,, i was estatic and saddened by the find and identification x

They didn't mention that their choice of places to break ground there was a mysterious 3 in roman numerals on the asphalt. It was painted on by someone, but nobody knows why. There were no other numbers painted near by. So they decided to start there, and there he was.

That girl they interviewed that said it was silly to dig him up and re-burry him made my eyes roll. She has no appreciation for history.

10/14/22 LOVED this video.

Thanks, i was using this for school

Was he buried next to the Minister of Parking?

Richard III looks eerily like John Lithgow.

Nearly 530 years after his death, controversial monarch King Richard III, will be interred at a cathedral in Leicester, England. Reg Sherren looks how two Canadians helped solve the mystery of his remains.

Great show 👏

Thanks, that was a great story.

So awesome I would have loved to have been there. This is just the finest news

Great detective story. Well done. Now if you could only tell us what happened to the two princes in the tower.

This is so interesting and incredible I love history

What about Phillipa Langley?

Fascinating!

The BIG question is how and when did the letter "R" in the car park get placed over the area where he was initially found?

You never now what is under your feet

Not silly. Fascinating.

Hey, England is truely Canada's mother country!.

Funny they seem to have completely forgotten the woman who was instrumental in finding Richard. Remember her?Phillipa Langley! Yes, thats the hero of the hour, not these people who only stepped in after the spot was identified.

I’m pretty sure there used to be a sort of theme park here in the states next to where I live called King Richards... And they... replaced it with a parking lot...

Congrats Michael. You have come full circle!

Cool ☺️ 👍

Very Interesting

I learned about this in school this is the exact video

Yet the final resting place of his nephews King Richard V and Prince Richard of Shrewsbury still remain a mystery.

“It has nothing to do, insists the Dean, with the reported check cut by a British TV Channel for exclusive rights to the funeral.” 😂

Imaged you drinking coffe and somebody told you hey you are a king

Astounding ....Beautiful ....

Amazing story.

Yes, we have a large family.

0:55 Lord Farquaad? Shrek is real

Man this guy loves Cannadians

This is cool. Richard is in my maternal haplogroup, something that I wouldn’t know without this research and 23&me.

Bless PHILIPPA LANGLEY.❤️ the woman behind all of this.❤️

I still fail to see how a big king could get buried without a big monument for a marker.

Fancy fighting with your priceless crown still on 😂

Cool 😎

How exciting it was to find his grave. Just the thought of him buried beneath a parking lot.........who would ever have thought that!

no mention that there are 2 genetic breaks in elizabeth II genetic line to richard III. some one cheated.

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A good thing it was not me, I would want a royal appointment.

Thats why documentation is very important