Cannons were fired in a salute to the king at Bosworth, where he died in 1485. His coffin which has since been on public view at the cathedral has drawn crowds from across the globe. He will finally be reinterred during a ceremony on Thursday when his remains will be lowered into a purpose-built tomb made of Yorkshire Swaledale stone, before visitors are allowed back inside Leicester Cathedral to see the completed memorial on Friday.
Richard's skeleton was found in 2012, in an old friary beneath a car park.
Archaeologists, academics, researchers and descendants of Richard III's family, including Michael Ibsen who built the coffin, placed white roses on it during the ceremony.
The funeral cortege, led by knights wearing plate armor and riding horses, passed sites of significance to Richard III, such as the Bow Bridge that he crossed to battle Henry Tudor’s forces. It is also said that his naked and battered corpse — analysis of his remains showed he suffered eight wounds to the skull, one to the ribs, and another to the pelvis — was slung on a horse’s back and carried into the city over that same bridge.
