It cost $250,000 for the University of Leicester to carry out the research and exhumation  that led to confirmation that  Richard III had been found beneath the parking lot, in a corner of Greyfriars Priory.  It cost $3 for the materials for my little painting to mark the occasion.

The team’s leading geneticist said that DNA samples from two modern-day descendants of Richard III’s family had provided a match with samples taken from the skeleton found under space #23.  Surprisingly his royal velvet cape was perfectly intact. Of course it had two parallel yellow stripes painted across it.