The coffin of England’s King Richard III has gone on public view until Thursday when his 530-year-old remains will be reburied.<br /><br /> A day of ceremonies on Sunday ended with a service at Leicester Cathedral where a tomb fit for a royal awaits him.<br /><br /> A crown similar to one he was said to have worn on the last day of his life was placed on the coffin.<br /><br /> Earlier, people lined the procession route in Leicester waving flags and white roses, the symbol of Richard’s House of York.<br /><br /> The week’s events mark the final journey for the most controversial of historical figures, whose death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 was a decisive moment in English history.<br /><br /> It brought to an end the War of the Roses and the Middle Ages – and saw off the Plantagenet dynasty, ushering in the Tudor era.<br /><br /> Richard of York was depicted by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked tyrant who murdered his young nephews to strengthen his grip on power. <br /><br /> But the archaeological discovery of his bones under a car park also brought
