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     • In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics.
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   Who plays Phillippa Langley in the Lost King?

   • The Lost King stars Sally Hawkins (left) as amateur historian Phillippa Langley, who instigated the search for Richard III's remains (Credit: Alamy) Viewers will sift through the evidence and make up their own minds but to understand the passions that Richard III still arouses, it helps to know the background.

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   Why did Philippa rewrite her story in the Richard III visitor centre?

   • In 2014 Philippa was informed by Leicester City Council that her story in the soon to be opened Richard III Visitor Centre had been rewritten by Leicester University. This was undertaken without her knowledge or consent. As a result, Philippa had no alternative but to seek legal representation.

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   Why did Leicester reburial King Richard III?

   • The reburial of King Richard III was an unprecedented event, and historic journey. These are not easy to undertake but in the end everyone agreed that Leicester and Leicestershire had done the king proud. Richard had been laid to rest with all the dignity and honour that could be bestowed, and peace had been made with the past.

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   Who starred in Richard III 'the king in the car park'?

   • And yet Langley's side of the story has also been "extensively documented". There's an award-winning 2013 documentary, Richard III: The King in the Car Park, first shown on Channel 4 and presented by Simon Farnaby. Langley effectively stars in it and was an associate producer. It features Taylor, briefly, and several other university employees.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Philippa_LangleyPhilippa Langley - Wikipedia

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   Philippa Jayne Langley MBE (born 29 June 1962) is a British writer, producer, and Ricardian, who is best known for her role in the discovery and 2012 exhumation of Richard III, as part of the Looking for Richard project, for which she was awarded an MBE.

4. www.nytimes.com › 2024/04/26 › booksDid Richard III Kill the Princes in the Tower? - The New York ...

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   Apr 26, 2024 · Philippa Langley devoted years to the search for Richard III’s remains. Now, she’s trying to crack a 15th-century cold case: Did he really assassinate his nephews?

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   Oct 6, 2022 · In The Lost King, Richard appears in visions to Langley (played by Harry Lloyd). Richard's body was hastily buried in the church of the Franciscan friars – the Grey Friars – in Leicester.

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   You can discover more about Philippa’s incredible story and 8-year journey to find the king in: The Lost King: The Search for Richard III (2013) and Finding Richard III: The Official Account of Research by the Retrieval and Reburial Project (2014).

8. www.smh.com.au › culture › moviesShe found a lost king’s grave, then things got complicated

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   Dec 22, 2022 · Shortly after the body of Richard III had been discovered under a car park in Leicester, in the UK’s midlands, a journalist approached Philippa Langley to ask whether he could share her taxi to the railway station. Langley had found the king’s body and organised the dig that exhumed him.

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     Philippa Langley On Digging Up ‘The Lost King’ Richard III After 500 Years – Specialty Preview

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10. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-england-leicestershireRichard III: How things have changed since we dug up a king - BBC

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    Aug 25, 2022 · Archaeologists from the University of Leicester were persuaded to excavate the car park following dogged research from Philippa Langley, along with colleagues in the Richard III Society.

11. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › movies'Lost King' credits amateur archaeologist with Richard III ...

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    Mar 22, 2023 · In the film, Philippa Langley becomes interested in Richard III following a performance of Shakespeare’s play “Richard III.” She suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome and relates to him as...