The discovery of a dead monarch beneath a Leicester council car park created a testing job for one unflappable priestIn the past year the Rev Pete Hobson has grown a beard snow white,much to the amusement of family and friends of the brown-haired priest – and written a book. Its title, How to Bury a King, and is the clue to his other recent preoccupation.final March millions around the world watched live television coverage of the reinterment of Richard III,the final of the Plantagenet kings, 530 years after a halberd pierced his skull and brainin the battle of Bosworth, and two and a half years after his remains were rediscovered under a Leicester council car park.
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Source: theguardian.com