Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England, was killed in battle by the armies of rival noble Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth, which took place in a field just outside Leicester in 1485.

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It would be given "pride of place" in the Richard III visitors center due to open in the central England city next year, she said.

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" Richard III " (MGM ): Ian McKellen's version, set in a fictional fascist England of the 1930s.

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