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A maligned monarch found under a parking lot was buried in pomp Thursday, as Britain embraced comeback King Richard III, a long-reviled ruler who is experiencing a remarkable posthumous renaissance.
Royalty, religious leaders and actor Benedict Cumberbatch joined archaeologists, Richard’s distant relatives and curious Britons for a service in Leicester Cathedral that saw Richard’s bones buried with dignity, 530 years after his violent death.
“Richard’s posthumous reputation has been less than glorious,” Gordon Campbell, the University of Leicester’s public orator, noted with understatement about a man whose name was long a byword for villainy.
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LEICESTER, UNITED KINGDOM – MARCH 26: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby waits at the entrance to Leicester Cathedral for the reinterment ceremony of King Richard III, on March 26, 2015 in Leicester, England. The skeleton of King Richard III was discovered in 2012 benaeth a car park…
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