One of her sons says, “If I had 2 sons, I would first make sure they had something to eat before I went off searching for Richard III.” Philippa’s family, consisting of John Langley (well-played by Steve Coogan, who also co-wrote the script with Jeff Pope) and her two sons, are at first bemused by Philippa’s obsession with her task.

Philippa points out that “People find out one thing about you and that’s all that they can see.” She also informs us that it was Richard III over 500 years ago, who, during his brief reign (1483-1485) as the last Plantagenet king of England posited the principle of British law “suspects are innocent until proven guilty.” She is determined to gather hard evidence to refute the bad things said throughout history about Richard III, especially in Shakespeare’s play of the same name.

And Philippa, for one, does not like it when people put people down. The film makes the point that “if you get in first with the first lie, and repeat it often enough,” the truth gets lost in the shuffle. Coogan, it should be noted, also plays Philippa’s husband, John Langley, opposite the wonderful Sally Hawkins, the female lead from “The Shape of Water.”. Ultimately, as scripted by co-star Steve Coogan in collaboration with Jeff Pope, it is a lovely tale with many messages for us in this age of disinformation. I doubt if anyone not a resident of that particular city knew the behind-the-scenes story of how, exactly, Richard III came to be found, through the efforts of an obsessed member of the online Richard III Society, who would not give up her quest. I remember when the newspapers of September 12, 2012, carried the news of the discovery of the body of Richard III buried beneath a parking lot in the town of Leicester in the U.K. THE LOST KING is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country’s most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England’s history”. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with skepticism by experts and academics. “ The Lost King” is the story of Philippa Langley and, as its synopsis says: “In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a parking lot in Leicester.

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