The Last Days of Richard III and the Fate of His DNA (41 page)

32. Alice Strettell (Comyns Carr), at the age of twenty-three. Alice was Richard III's niece in the fourteenth generation, the wife of an Edwardian theatre producer, a friend of Dame Ellen Terry and goddaughter of the author, Charles Kingsley. Photograph taken in 1873, at the time of her marriage.

33. Alice Strettell's only daughter, Dorothy (‘Dolly') Comyns Carr, at the age of three. Dolly was Richard III's niece in the fifteenth generation. Photograph of a sketch by E.A. Abbey, published in
Mrs J. Comyns Carr's Reminiscences
, 1925.

34. Alma Strettell (Harrison), Richard III's niece in the fourteenth generation. Photograph of the portrait by John Singer Sargent published in
Mrs J. Comyns Carr's Reminiscences
, 1925. Alma was a writer, a friend of the artists Sargent and Burne Jones, and a close friend of Queen Elisabeth of Romania.

35. Alma Strettell's younger daughter, Sylvia Harrison, Richard III's niece in the fifteenth generation. Photograph of the portrait by John Singer Sargent published in
Mrs J. Comyns Carr's Reminiscences
, 1925.

36. Alma Strettell's elder daughter, Margaret Harrison (Nowell; Armstrong), Richard III's niece in the fifteenth generation. Photograph courtesy of Margaret's granddaughter, Anna Lee Frohlich.

37. Charlotte Vansittart Neale (Mrs Frere), Richard III's niece in the thirteenth generation, and niece of Barbara Spooner (Wilberforce). (Photograph courtesy of Mrs J. Ibsen)

38. Charlotte Vansittart Frere (Mrs Stokes), Richard III's niece in the fourteenth generation. (Photograph courtesy of Mrs J. Ibsen)

39. Muriel Stokes (Mrs Brown), Richard III's niece in the fifteenth generation. (Photograph courtesy of Jeff Ibsen)

40. Joy Brown (Mrs Ibsen), direct descendant in the sixteenth generation (and in an all-female line) of Richard III's sister, Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter. (Photograph courtesy of Mrs J. Ibsen)

41. A tentative plan of the Franciscan Priory in Leicester, based on the excavations of August 2012, and on plans of similar priories. ‘X'marks the site of Richard III's grave.

42. Richard III's grave, showing the position in which his body was found. The feet were missing, due to nineteenth-century trenching. The skeleton in this photograph is not the original.

43. Facial reconstruction, based upon Richard III's skull.