Richard III's coffin arrives for reburial: what happens next?

530 years after he was slain in battle, Richard III is to be re-interred at Leicester Cathedral

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Thousands of people have been queuing to see King Richard III's coffin at Leicester Cathedral before he is reburied later this week.

The discovery of the King's remains under a Leicester car park in 2012 was hailed as one of the most sensational archaeological finds of the past century. This week, 530 years after he was slain in battle, the medieval English monarch will be given the ceremonial burial he was denied in 1485.

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