But while detailed genetic testing and painstaking genealogical research helped confirm that one living relative on Richard 's female line , Michael Ibsen , was an exact match to his mitochondrial DNA , and found a second , previously unknown but near-perfect mitochondrial match in New Zealand-born Londoner Wendy Duldig , scientists were n't able to trace a living relative on the male line , using the Y chromosome . DNA tests reveal long - lived King Richard III probably had blond hair , blue eyes . About 99.999 percent certain remains found in parking lot are those of monarch . Experts say chances are a million to one that skeleton belongs to last Plantagenet king . Attempts to prove male line through Y chromosome failed because of ' false paternity event '
DNA tests reveal long - lived King Richard III probably had blond hair , blue eyes . About 99.999 percent certain remains found in parking lot are those of monarch . Experts say chances are a million to one that skeleton belongs to last Plantagenet king . Attempts to prove male line through Y chromosome failed because of ' false paternity event '