Richard III is one of the most polarising monarchs in British history: decried for centuries as a child murderer, he is feted by some as a champion of reform.
The last English monarch to be killed in battle – whose death effectively marked the end of the Middle Ages – is being buried in Leicester today.
But this being 2015, social media has somehow become involved.
A long-running Twitter account pretending to be the last of the Plantagenets decided to livetweet the event from the perspective of the coffin.
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