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This is fascinating to me. I had no idea that this kind of detail would be discoverable from a skeleton:

“The archaeologists who studied Richard‘s femur and ribs and discovered a marked alteration in Richard‘s diet around the time he became king – evidence of ‘consumption of high trophic level, terrestrial foods, such as freshwater fish and wildfowl . . .

I wish that I'd made a list of all the criticisms historians make of Henry VI. John Julius Norwich describes his reign as “perhaps the saddest half-century in English history“; Bernard Wolffe causticly speculates that “Henry was quite content to be Edward's prisoner once more, perhaps looking forward to returning to his old quarters in the Tower“; now David Horspool calls him “pious, ineffectual, and periodically deranged.“