Some 530 years on from his violent death in 1485, the last English monarch killed in battle will be laid to rest on Thursday in Leicester Cathedral, across the street from where his remains were located in 2012.
Their discovery was confirmed by a DNA match with Richard’s closest living relative -- Canadian carpenter Michael Ibsen, who fittingly has now made the monarch’s oak coffin.
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