article_snippet: Say the name Richard III to many people, and the image which will spring to mind is that of Shakespeare's villain, hunchbacked and murderous, who met a grisly end on the battlefield at Bosworth after killing Bosworth nephews, the Princes in the Tower.
article_snippet: As a writer my view of Richard III has always been that Richard III was a very complex, very conflicted, very flawed individual -- that's the human condition:
article_snippet: We are all flawed, complex, conflicted -- but there was something heroic about Richard III, Richard III was courageous on and off the battlefield," she explains.
article_snippet: she says DNA evidence that the King was blue eyed and fair haired -- in contrast to portraits and written descriptions which painted Richard III "as a hunchback, with a withered arm and a crippled gait, with 'evil' dark eyes and hair" -- had "blow[n] the mythology out of the window.
article_snippet: The ethos and aim of the project was to give Richard III what Richard III didn't get in 1485," Richard III says.