- King Richard III's body is due to be laid to rest at Leicester Cathedral later at a service presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- The Most Rev Justin Welby will be joined by local senior clergy and representatives of world faiths for the service at 11:30 GMT.
- Sophie, Countess of Wessex and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are also among the guests.
- The king's remains were found beneath a Leicester car park in 2012.
- Thousands of people lined the streets as the last Plantagenet king's funeral procession travelled through the county on Sunday.
- Many more queued for hours to view the coffin in the cathedral.
- Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who was found to be a distant relation of the king, is due to read a poem written by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at the service.
- Also invited to attend are 200 members of the public following a ballot and representatives of those involved in finding and identifying the remains.
- Communities who live in the vicinity of the battle site and known descendants from the Battle of Bosworth have also been invited.
- More than 20,000 visitors queued for up to four hours at a time to catch a glimpse of the coffin inside the cathedral before it was closed on Wednesday for the reburial preparations to get under way.
- The cathedral will fully reopen to the public on Friday when the king's sealed tomb will be revealed.
- The reburial has not been without controversy. Campaigners who petitioned for Richard III to be reburied in York have described the events in Leicester over the last week as a "pantomime".
- Richard, the last English king to die in battle, was killed at Bosworth Field in 1485, at the end of the Wars of the Roses.
BBC
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