
You might think that if you'd been buried for over 500 years and widely vilified for most of that half millenium that no one would bother fighting over the rights to your bones. You would be wrong. Whether
Richard III's newly disinterred remains should finally rest in
York or Leicester, and
whether they lie in consecrated Church of England or Catholic ground appears to be something that the legal system may have to sort out. Wherever he lands, the mystery of whether Richard III was the scheming, murderous villain that Shakespeare so memorably made him out to be or the wise monarch who pioneered legal reforms as hailed by the
Richard III Society remains an open question.