Cathedral set to rebury Richard III

Richard III's coffin arrived at Leicester Cathedral on Sunday

King Richard III's body is due to be laid to rest at Leicester Cathedral later at a service presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Most Rev Justin Welby will be joined by local senior clergy and representatives of world faiths for the service at 11:30 GMT.

Sophie, Countess of Wessex and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are also among the guests.

A procession and commemoration service are also planned in York.

The king's remains were found beneath a Leicester car park in 2012.

Thousands of people lined the streets as the last Plantagenet king's body was taken on a procession through the county on Sunday ahead of the reburial service.

Many more queued for hours to view the coffin in the cathedral.

Crowds adorned Richard III's coffin with white roses as it travelled to the cathedral

The Dean of Leicester, the Very Reverend David Monteith, told the Today programme the ceremony would be an "extraordinary, moving thing".

He added: "There are no mourners. Instead it's much more of a hello, a welcome, a recognition of our history.

"Also [it's] a recognition of the pain of what happened to him, the humiliation he suffered after death - which is really not what we would want for any human being and the church would want to point to his dignity."

Thousands of people lined the streets on Sunday to view the procession

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who was found to be a distant relation of the king, is due to read a poem written by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at the service.

Also invited to attend are 200 members of the public following a ballot and representatives of those involved in finding and identifying the remains.

Communities who live in the vicinity of the battle site and known descendants from the Battle of Bosworth have also been invited.

Benedict Cumberbatch will play Richard III in a TV production for the BBC

People queued for up to four hours to see the coffin in Leicester Cathedral

More than 20,000 visitors queued for up to four hours at a time to catch a glimpse of the coffin inside the cathedral before it was closed on Wednesday for the reburial preparations to get under way.

The cathedral will fully reopen to the public on Friday when the king's sealed tomb will be revealed.

In York, a choral evensong will be held at York Minster at 17:15 GMT followed by a commemoration service.

A procession led by the civic party and senior clergy will then make its way through the city from 18:20 GMT and end at Mansion House.

The king's skeleton was sealed inside a lead-lined inner casket known as an ossuary last week

The reburial has not been without controversy. Campaigners who petitioned for Richard III to be reburied in York have described the events in Leicester over the last week as a "pantomime".

Richard, the last English king to die in battle, was killed at Bosworth Field in 1485, at the end of the Wars of the Roses.

Richard III's remains were found under a car park in Leicester in 2012

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