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no one has dug up his skeleton to see the evidence for a hunchback, yet it is believed that his successor, Henry the seventh, ordered all the paintings of Richard the third to be edited so it appeared that he had a hunchback so people would hate the old king and welcome the new. carbon-14 testing shows a strong chance of this being so. However, ancient royal families, because of their habits of keeping the blood line 'pure' often performed incest, and deformaties such as a hunchback were not uncommon because of this.

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