![]() ![]() SHAPIRO: Descendents of the king placed white roses on his coffin. So seeing King Richard's cortege coming back into the city with dignity and honor today is about proclaiming something different. Dean of Leicester, David Monteith, spoke to the BBC.ĭAVID MONTEITH: We can't undo the history, but we can make new history. SHAPIRO: Reenactors in period costume marched through the city streets with a funeral cortege yesterday. Now, 530 years later, the city of Leicester is giving him the royal treatment. His body was hauled into the city mutilated and slung crudely over a horse, then quickly buried. SHAPIRO: Richard III was the last English king killed in battle. RICHARD BUCKLEY: The individual exhumed at Greyfriars in September 2012 is, indeed, Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England. Archaeologist Richard Buckley from the University of Leicester made the announcement. SHAPIRO: Meanwhile, the man himself faded into history until researchers unearthed a skeleton in a parking lot three years ago. IAN MCKELLEN: (As Richard III) Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious sun. LAURENCE OLIVIER: (As Richard III) My kingdom for a horse. ![]() ![]() NPR's Ari Shapiro reports from London.ĪRI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Every great Shakespearean actor has sunk his teeth into the notorious hunchbacked king, from Laurence Olivier. They wanted to see the coffin of Richard III, the king who provided the basis for one of Shakespeare's most famous villains. In England, hundreds of people lined up outside of Leicester Cathedral this morning. ![]()
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