Historian Dr Mary Ann Lund believes Richard III used good tailoring and clever armour to hide the scoliosis in his spine that curved to the right . She argues his condition only emerged when he was stripped after death . Scientists who examined Richard III 's skeleton say the king was far from being the hunchback portrayed by William Shakespeare in his plays . The discovery of a new species of dinosaur has been made at an ancient site on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
Historian Dr Mary Ann Lund believes Richard III used good tailoring and clever armour to hide the scoliosis in his spine that curved to the right . She argues his condition only emerged when he was stripped after death . Scientists who examined Richard III 's skeleton say the king was far from being the hunchback portrayed by William Shakespeare in his plays . Dr Lund says the king 's name was probably blackened after death in battle .