No bones about it -- it is Richard III

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In an extraordinary discovery which rewrites the history books, the skeleton of the last of the Plantagenet kings (Richard III) was identified by DNA analysis after researchers traced his living descendants. Investigators from the University of Leicester have revealed their dramatic findings. DNA tests on bones recently unearthed in an archaeological dig in Leicester matched samples taken from two living descendants of King Richard's sister. A separate skeletal analysis showed striking similarities between the unearthed bones and features Richard was said to have had.They showed the curved spine which proves that Shakespeare's interpretation of the monarch was at least partly true and that he did have a hunchback (as played by Kevin Spacey, right). They also found evidence of 'humiliation' injuries, including several head wounds - part of the skull was sliced away - a cut to the ribcage and a pelvic wound likely caused by an upward thrust of a weapon.