There can be few ceremonies in all of recorded history as unusual as that taking place in Leicester today. As every student knows Shakespeare cast Richard III as an ogre and that is how he was seen and thought of thereafter. He did not even have a memorial. The whereabouts of his remains were subject to speculation, but the location unknown. Then a dedicated team of archaeologists dug up a car park in the city and found his bones. Now he is to be honoured as a King and reburied in the Cathedral, his reputation undergoing something of a rehabilitation as people concentrate more on the recorded history and less on the Shakespearean drama. It is all a curiously fulfilling epitaph for the fallen House of York.