King Richard III to Be Reburied in Leicester, British Court Says
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Version 0 of 1. LONDON — A British court ruled on Friday that King Richard III should be reburied in a cathedral in Leicester, the city where his remains were found in a parking lot two years ago. The ruling was a defeat for the king’s descendants who wanted his remains to be reburied in York, arguing that he had spent much of his life there. But archaeologists who discovered the king’s remains decided to keep the body in Leicester, a decision backed by Britain’s Justice Ministry. The judges said, "There were no public law grounds for the court interfering with the decisions in question.” The king died at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, and his body was supposedly taken away on horseback by the victor, Henry Tudor, who later became Henry VII, ending the Wars of the Roses. His body was discovered and exhumed in September 2012. |