Bishop of Leicester: 'Richard III will be buried in Leicester'
King Richard III's remains were discovered underneath a Leicester car park The Bishop of Leicester has said there is "no doubt in his mind" Richard III will be reburied in the city.
When bones discovered under a car park in the city were confirmed as the king's the government granted a licence for them to be reinterred in Leicester.
But the Plantagenet Alliance - distant relatives of Richard III - want him buried in York, and have won a judicial review into the decision.
The Right Reverend Tim Stevens said he should rest close to "where he fell".
The king, who reigned from 1483, was killed in the final battle of the Wars of the Roses at Bosworth field in Leicestershire in 1485.
The skeleton was found under the car park in 2012 and Justice Secretary Chris Grayling granted a licence to the University of Leicester to excavate the bones and decide where they should be reburied if they proved to be the remains of the king.
The university eventually chose Leicester Cathedral, where detailed plans for his tomb were later drawn up.
But the Plantagenet Alliance wants him reinterred in York Minster, claiming that were Richard's wish.
Bishop Stevens said: "I think that as the court concentrates on the central question, which is 'where do human remains that have been disinterred belong?', the answer is in the nearest consecrated ground, the place of discovery.
"I'm sure that's the decision that we will obtain, we just have to wait for it."
"This is the natural outcome of the story and I believe it will be the outcome," he added.
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