King Richard III
Hunchbacked English ruler
King Richard III was the last Plantagenet king of England, reigning from 1483 until his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
Shakespeare's play depicts him as a scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews in the Tower of London, though historians debate how much is Tudor propaganda.
His skeleton, discovered under a Leicester parking lot in 2012, confirmed his scoliosis.
My kingdom for a horse! is his famous dying plea.
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