At the time of publishing this post the reburial of King Richard III is underway in the city of Liecester, UK.









King Richard III was killed in a bloody civil war known as the War of Roses in 1485 but his skeleton was discovered in a old friary beneath a car park in 2012. A ceremony has taken place at the University of Leicester ahead of the reburial..









The cortege departed the university earlier and will pass places in Leicestershire associated with the
former king, who died at Bosworth in 1485.









The coffin is set to reach Leicester Cathedral at 17:35GMT, where he will be finally reinterred on Thursday.









A special morning service was held at the cathedral and a vigil was staged by a local re-enactment group at the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre earlier.









Defendants of Richard III placed white roses on his coffin during the ceremony










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