Jenny Gilbert, 34, is the director of AJ Adkinson and Son, the company responsible for the final journey of the medieval king’s skeleton.<br /><br />The remains were exhumed from beneath a car park in the former Greyfriars Friary Church in Leicester city centre in September 2012.<br /><br />The area had more recently been the site of Leicester Grammar School which Jenny had attended, but the school moved in 2008.<br /><br />She explained that she would unwittingly walk across the campus’s car park on her way to lunch every day, not knowing what was underneath the tarmac.<br /><br />Richard III’s skeleton was discovered on the site in 2012 and the University of Leicester announced in February 2013 it had proven that it was the king’s remains.<br /><br />This followed DNA tests with two 17th-generation descendants of Richard’s sister, Anne of York.<br /><br />Miss Gilbert wrote to the Dean of Leicester Cathedral following the discovery offering her services in the re-burial.<br /><br />See more at SWNS.com
