Reconstruction: the eyes are blue!

The eyes in the reconstructed face *are* blue, as you can see in this shot:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/05/world/europe/richard-iii-reconstruction/index.html

I guess it's just the lighting that makes them look black in the other photos. So they did get that detail right (assuming that the painted portraits reveal his actual coloring).

Carol