The body of King Richard III will be reburied at
Leicester Cathedral next March.
A reinterment service will take place
at the cathedral on March 26 following a week of events in Leicestershire to
honour the monarch.
The remains will be transferred into a
lead-lined coffin at Leicester University on March 22 and will travel by hearse
to Bosworth for a day of events marking the king's final movements.
The journey will see the hearse travel
through villages that were significant to the monarch's final days ahead of a
service in Bosworth.
The king, who reigned from 1483, was
killed at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485.
The coffin will then return to Leicester
Cathedral in the early evening where a service of reception will be attended by
guests invited by David Monteith, the Dean of Leicester.
The monarch's remains will then lie in
repose, his coffin covered with a commissioned pall, for three days to allow
for members of the public to pay their respects
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