Richard III, the great villain of English history, is due a makeover
The discovery of a skeleton under a Leicester car park has reignited interest in the maligned monarchTo the headline writers, he's become "the king in the car park". To Shakespeare, he was the "bottled spider". But 527 years after he died on Bosworth Field, he has become part of the national conversation again. Somewhere between a Mondeo monarch and a pantomime villain lies the figure of Richard III, one of the most …