Richard III of England maternal side was as previously thought. The paternal side, however, demonstrated some variance from what had been expected, with the DNA showing no links to the purported descendants of Richard's great-great-grandfather Edward III of England through Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort. This could be the result of covert illegitimacy that does not reflect the accepted genealogies between Richard and Edward III or between Edward III and the 5th Duke of Beaufort. In 1485, following his death in battle against Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field, Richard III's body was buried in Greyfriars Church in Leicester. Following the discoveries of Richard's
Richard Lee Watkins III Richard Lee Watkins III Richard Lee Watkins III (born February 19, 1985) is an American scientist, politician, community organizer, academic and entrepreneur. Watkins was born in 1985 in Tyler, Texas and was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. Watkins graduated from Fayetteville State University in 2007 and began his studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine in 2009. After earning his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he founded The Science Policy Action Network, Inc. (SPAN), where he serves as the organization’s chief executive officer. Richard Lee Watkins III was born