As the astonishing story of the king’s bones being discovered in Leicester hits the screen, we meet the sleuth whose extraordinary tenacity – despite chronic illness – located the monarch
has made about the discovery. Digressions from the film back to Richard’s true character are frequent. “When you look at the contemporary source material from his own lifetime,” she says, “it’s a very different man that you see: loyal, brave, pious.”’s Scottish branch, and was made its honorary president in 2015. The year after next, the organisation will celebrate its centenary.
Langley was, at that time, having a phenomenally hard time. She’d been diagnosed with ME, was unable to work, had two small boys, her marriage had broken down, and she was making trips to Leicester for which she had to “sleep-bank” for two or three days beforehand. “I could never tell any of them [the academics and, later, archeologists], because it was one of those illnesses then: if people knew you had it, you were a bit odd.
It’s a bit of a Joan of Arc story, in the sense that you can’t help worrying that, had you been there, you’d have been on the side of the sniggering soldiers, not on the side of the solitary firebrand. I mean, seriously, would you dig a spot because it had given someone goosebumps ? There was a modernity to Richard, who enacted laws that ‘tried to raise the rights of ordinary people’
, and they showed me, under strictest confidentiality, how they reburied the fallen. It was so respectful and so sensitive. I was in awe.”Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters
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