A university academic has been awarded substantial damages after a court ruled the portrayal of him in a Steve Coogan film about the discovery of a Richard III's remains did have a defamatory meaning.

LONDON (AP) — It was a true story stranger than fiction: The body of England’s King Richard III, missing for centuries, was discovered under a parking lot after a search spearheaded by amateur sleuths ...

Steve Coogan, his production company Baby Cow and Pathé Productions have settled a libel claim over their 2022 film “The Lost King,” with the university employee who sued over his depiction in the ...

He said that due to the ill health of Philippa Langley, whose recollection of events around the finding of King Richard III’s remains was the basis for the film, her evidence could not be presented to ...

He said that due to the ill health of Philippa Langley, whose recollection of events around the finding of King Richard III’s remains was the basis for the film, her evidence could not be presented to ...