Review – The Lost King

The events surrounding the search for Richard III’s grave and its ultimate rediscovery beneath a Leicester car park represent one of those narratives that, if presented to you as fiction, you would dismiss as going too far. They certainly kept the CA editorial team busy (not least when the king’s skeleton was identified just as issue 272 was about to go to press), and so I was very interested to watch The Lost King, a new big-screen depiction of the investigation. Sally Hawkins as Philippa Langley. Photo: Pathé UK The film reunites co-writers Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, and director Stephen Frears, the team behind 2013’s Philomena. That too was a tragicomic story about the hunt