The last Plantagenet king did have significant mid-thoracic
adolescent-onset idiopathic scoliosis, but not enough to generate a
"hump," as the video explains.
The attribution of a hunchback deformity is of course a legacy of
pro-Tudor biases incorporated in Edward deVere's famous eponymous
16th-century play, in which Richard is described as a hunchback who is
"rudely stamp'd," "deformed, unfinish'd."
Further information at Medievalists, where you can view a 3-D reconstruction of the spine.
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