MORE THAN 100 people have marched though York in support of a campaign to have the remains of Richard III buried in the city.

The march from Castle Museum to Museum Gardens was led by Vanessa Roe, the Plantagenet king’s 16th great niece today. (Monday, May 6.)

Richard III’s skeletal remains were discovered by archaeologists under a car park in Leicester and are due to be re-interred there next year.

Ms Roe and other relatives claim it was his wish to be buried in York, and lawyers acting on behalf of the Plantagenet Alliance, which includes 15 of Richard III’s descendants, have lodged papers in the High Court seeking a judicial review of the decision to have him reburied in Leicester.

But the licence to carry out the dig, issued by the Ministry of Justice, gave the University of Leicester the authority to decide where to rebury the king.

The university said his remains would be buried at Leicester Cathedral "in keeping with good archaeological practice".

Richard was killed at the battle of Bosworth in 1485 and was hurriedly buried in the church of the Greyfriars in Leicester, which was subsequently lost during redevelopment.