Scientific retrieval of royal remains can correct but not fully vindicate

Evidence

Now we know the body in the Leicester car park is indeed that of Richard III, we have to concede the curved spine was not Tudor propaganda, but we need not believe the chronicler who claimed Richard was the product of a two-year pregnancy and was born with teeth. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1195

Categorization

• QUESTION: What other historical ‘facts’ rest on propagandist distortions half-confirmed by recovered evidence? How does one weigh a discredited chronicle against a confirmed skeleton?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1195