THE legal bid to bury the bones of Richard III in York has officially begun.
Papers have been lodged at court in London by the Plantagenet Alliance to have the process leading to the decision to bury the bones of Richard III in Leicester re-examined through a judicial review.
The papers will now be served to the Ministry of Justice and the University of Leicester, which will then have 21 days to notify the court of their response.
The alliance, made up of 15 people related to the 15th-century monarch, claim the Ministry of Justice’s failure to consult them on the decision to bury Richard II in Leicester breached their human rights.
The bones were found in an archaeological dig in Leicester.
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