There were six or seven young men, most of them wearing shalwar kameez instead of uniforms, under the command of a tiny hunchbacked man who walked with difficulty, using crutches.

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Assuming that the skeleton really is that of the king as the DNA experts at Leicester contend, having connected him to a Canadian carpenter named Michael Ibsen, who is directly descended from King Richard's mother its curvature of the spine implies that Shakespeare only slightly exaggerated by making him hunchbacked.

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