Richard III's coffin goes on public view
The coffin of England’s King Richard III has gone on public view until Thursday when his 530-year-old remains will be reburied.
A day of ceremonies on Sunday ended with a service at Leicester Cathedral where a tomb fit for a royal awaits him.
A crown similar to one he was said to have worn on the last day of his life was placed on the coffin.
Earlier, people lined the procession route in Leicester waving flags and white roses, the symbol of Richard’s House of York.
The week’s events mark the final journey for the most controversial of historical figures, whose death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 was a decisive moment in English history.
It brought to an end the War of the Roses and the Middle Ages – and saw off the Plantagenet dynasty, ushering in the Tudor era.
Richard of York was depicted by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked tyrant who murdered his young nephews to strengthen his grip on power.
But the archaeological discovery of his bones under a car park also brought
A day of ceremonies on Sunday ended with a service at Leicester Cathedral where a tomb fit for a royal awaits him.
A crown similar to one he was said to have worn on the last day of his life was placed on the coffin.
Earlier, people lined the procession route in Leicester waving flags and white roses, the symbol of Richard’s House of York.
The week’s events mark the final journey for the most controversial of historical figures, whose death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 was a decisive moment in English history.
It brought to an end the War of the Roses and the Middle Ages – and saw off the Plantagenet dynasty, ushering in the Tudor era.
Richard of York was depicted by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked tyrant who murdered his young nephews to strengthen his grip on power.
But the archaeological discovery of his bones under a car park also brought
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