Richard III's bones were found under a car park, and his distant relatives sued the government over where to bury him

Richard III was killed at Bosworth in 1485, the last English king to die in battle, and buried in the Greyfriars church in Leicester. The church was demolished after the Reformation. In September 2012 a University of Leicester team dug under a council car park and found a skeleton with battle wounds and a curved spine. In February 2013 the university announced that mitochondrial DNA matched two living descendants of Richard's sister, including Canadian-born Michael Ibsen. The Ministry of Justice licence for the dig provided for reburial in Leicester. The Plantagenet Alliance, a company formed by collateral descendants, sought judicial review and asked for burial in York. On 23 May 2014 the High Court ruled there were no public law grounds to interfere and that the descendants had no special legal standing. Richard was reburied in Leicester Cathedral on 26 March 2015. The bones that had lain under a parking space now lie in a tomb of Swaledale stone^†.