'State funeral' for King Richard III who will be reburied at Leicester Cathedral, Daily Express

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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My kingdom for the Force! Richard III model blasted for looking like a STORMTROOPER,

My kingdom for the Force! Richard III model blasted for looking like a STORMTROOPER, Daily Express

Richard 111 and a Stormtropper , spot the difference.

A MODEL of Richard III which features at a multi-million pound exhibition has today been blasted for looking like a STORMTROOPER from Star Wars.

Experts said a re-creation of the former King's armour was "grotesque" and made him look an Imperial soldier from George Lucas's iconic sci-fi movies.

The model, which is mainly white like a stormtrooper, is on display at the £4million Richard III Visitor Centre which opened in Leicester over the weekend.

Annette Carson, who is part of the Looking for Richard Project, said her team were "saddened and profoundly disappointed" by the exhibition.

Ms Carson wrote online:  "Other grotesque exhibits include the white-painted depiction of the king's armour resembling a Storm Trooper from Star Wars, despite representatives of the council and university having attended the presentation by Dr Tobias Capwell in March 2013 where he described his armour and illustrated its actual probable appearance.

"As an example of the organisers' taste in these matters, it was only by strenuous insistence that we removed the planned visual which was to greet visitors: the central throne was to be drenched in a sickening pool of blood which dropped down to form words written in blood on the floor below."

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When I first saw this photo,   I assumed it was the new Star Wars film,   how wrong was that.   Richard 111 needs to have a more accurate armour,  and this disgrace needs to be passed onto JJ Abrams for Star Wars Episode V11.