English‘car park king’ Richard III gets final burial

The statue of King Richard III outside Leicester cathedral in Leicester, central England 21 March 2015. The City of Leicester is preparing for the reburial of King Richard III who died in Bosworth in 1845. Richard will be re-interred at Leicester Cathedral 26 March. EPA

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.