1. Philippa Jayne Langley was born on 29 June 1962 and is a British writer, producer, and Ricardian, who is best known for her role in the discovery and 2012 exhumation of Richard III, as part of the Looking for Richard project, for which she was awarded an MBE.
Philippa Langley was born in British Kenya and at the age of two moved with her parents to Blackwell, in Darlington, England.
Philippa Langley had been diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis and had abandoned her job in marketing to write a screenplay about Richard III more aligned with historians such as Kendall.
Philippa Langley formed the Scottish branch of the Richard III Society.
Philippa Langley entered the Social Services car park, and at the northern end felt a "strange sensation" come over her, saying "I knew in my innermost being that Richard's body lay there".
In 2005, Philippa Langley engaged with Dr John Ashdown-Hill, who had traced Richard's mitochondrial DNA to a living descendant in Canada, thus enabling the identification of any remains.
In February 2009, at the Cramond Inn in Edinburgh, Philippa Langley formed the Looking for Richard project to get the car park excavated, with Dr David and Wendy Johnson, and later Ashdown-Hill and Carson, and chair of the Richard III Society, Dr Phil Stone.
In late 2010, Philippa Langley won the backing of Leicester City Council CEO Sheila Lock for a dig and television documentary to promote Leicester's association with Richard III; if any remains were found, they were to be buried in Leicester Cathedral.
Philippa Langley contracted the University of Leicester Archaeological Services to do the excavations.
Philippa Langley felt "sidelined" at the presentation, while the University presented itself as "leading" the search.
In 2014, Philippa Langley started a project to locate the remains of Henry I of England, who was buried at Reading Abbey, but which later fell into ruin, which became the "Hidden Abbey Project".
In 2020, Philippa Langley said that she believed that the grave of Henry I was beneath the western car park of the former Reading gaol.
In 2022, Philippa Langley led "The Missing Princes Project" to discover the fate of the Princes in the Tower.
Philippa Langley again responded that her use of "police investigative methodology" had provided "sufficient reason to conclude" that the two had survived the reign of Richard III.
From August 2011 to February 2013, Philippa Langley acted as associate producer of the Channel 4 documentary film, Richard III: The King in the Car Park.
In 2013, Langley co-authored with military historian Michael K Jones, The King's Grave: The Search for Richard III.
In 2013, it was reported that Philippa Langley hoped her completed screenplay on Richard III would become a film, with Richard portrayed by English actor Richard Armitage.
Philippa Langley had titled her screenplay, Blood Royal, and based it on Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle, by Michael K Jones.
Philippa Langley was married but later separated from her husband, John Langley; they have two sons.