The Lost King

Philippa doesn't have it easy: she's constantly overlooked in her agency job, her sons are slowly going their own ways, and she's in the middle of a divorce from John, with whom she actually gets along quite well. After a visit to the theater, she develops a fascination with King Richard III and sets her sights on finding his missing remains. She refuses to believe that the controversial monarch was really as despicable a monster as Shakespeare portrayed him. Her search is the starting point for an adventurous journey in which the unassuming Philippa follows her intuition against great odds and takes on respected historians to tell the world the true story of Richard III.

The true and moving story of an unusual woman who found the missing remains of King Richard III in 2012 and changed the writing of history. "The Lost King" tells Philippa's quest as a deeply human journey, a triumph of a woman who refuses to let the male-dominated academic world deter her path, and in doing so makes an incredible discovery.