The Society was founded in 1924 under the name The Fellowship of the White Rose.  It was refounded in 1956 on a wider membership basis and formally changed its name to The Richard III Society in 1959.  The Society is an incorporated body bound by a constitution and managed by an executive committee elected at the AGM, which takes place each October.  HRH The Duke of Gloucester, KG, GCVO, has been the Society’s Patron since 1980.

Our Mission:

In the belief that many features of the traditional accounts of the character and career of Richard III are neither supported by sufficient evidence nor reasonably tenable, the Society aims to promote, in every possible way, research into the life and times of Richard III, and to secure a reassessment of the material relating to this period, and of the role of this monarch in English history.