Showing posts with label mitochondrial DNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mitochondrial DNA. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Nightingales sang in Leicester Square


Once a Plantagenet, always a Plantagenet, that’s what I say.

Actually, I’ve never said that before in my life.

Until now.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of King Richard III, last of the Plantagenet kings, under a parking lot in Leicester, England.

They proved it with the mitochondrial DNA of Michael Ibsen, a Canadian carpenter living in London who just happens to be the 17th great-grandnephew of Richard’s older sister.

What goes around, comes around.

That’s what I say.

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.

I say that too.

Only Shakespeare said it first.

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