![]() ![]() Earlier, more than 35,000 people turned out to see the cortege parade through parts of Leicestershire. Between 23 and 25 March, the coffin holding the remains was ‘in Repose’ in Leicester Cathedral for the public to view and over 20,000 people, including myself, filed past the casket during this time. It could have escaped few people’s notice that in 2012 the remains of Richard III, King of England from June 1483 to August 1485, were found under a car park in the English East Midlands city of Leicester and have just been reinterred in the city’s Cathedral. Made glorious summer by this sun of York Īnd all the clouds that lour’d upon our house Perhaps the above picture brings to mind the opening lines of Shakespeare’s Richard III: A statue of Richard III, sited outside Leicester Cathedral. ![]()
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