article_snippet: his skeleton had a large hole in the skull, and crucially, a curved spine, which is consistent with reports that Richard had a hunched back.
highlights_snippet: The bones have been packed in wool and Richard’s hands and feet have been placed in linen bags, embroidered with roses by children at Leicester’s Richard III Primary School.
highlights_snippet: the King’s skeleton is covered by a raw linen cloth, embroidered with York roses, by Elizabeth Noakes, of the Richard III Society.
  
highlights_snippet: By an enormous coincidence, Smee also suffers from scoliosis, the curvature of the spine that led Shakespeare to call Richard
highlights_snippet: Dominic learned to ride and fight in a specially made suit of armour  and proved Richard could have been the great warrior of repute and that Richard scoliosis was hardly apparent when clothed.
  
highlights_snippet: Legend says Richard spur struck Bow Bridge, and an old crone prophesied an old crone head would hit the same stone.
  
highlights_snippet: On an old crone return, Richard was slung naked over a horse, Richard hands tied together.
highlights_snippet: Legend says that Richard broken skull did hit the same stone on Bow Bridge.
highlights_snippet: Trauma to Richard skeleton
highlights_snippet: ’s pelvic bone showed that someone stabbed someone in the bottom.
  
highlights_snippet: On top of a slab of black polished granite, carved with Richard’s boar badge, Richard’s coat of arms, is Richard’s motto