Richard III, Previous Visit a Bust, Is Warmly Received 530 Years Later

From The New York Times-

Nearly 530 years after King Richard III was slain on a battlefield near the city of Leicester, a coffin containing his remains was paraded through the crowded streets of that English Midlands city ahead of a formal reburial ceremony at Leicester’s Anglican cathedral scheduled for Thursday.

The procession began early Sunday with the coffin traveling a dozen miles west of Leicester to the site of the Battle of Bosworth Field. It was there, on Aug. 22, 1485, that the 32-year-old Richard, popularly cast by many in England in the succeeding centuries as the most brutal and duplicitous of all English monarchs, was killed by the forces of Henry Tudor, founder of the Tudor dynasty.

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