By David Crabtree, Midlands Correspondent
A legal challenge is under way over where the 500-year-old remains of King Richard III should be finally laid to rest.
The bones of the king were discovered under a council car park in Leicester, which was built over a long-demolished friary.
A plan for the last Plantagenet King to be buried in the city's St Martin's Cathedral, only 500 yards away is well advanced.
King Richard III's remains unearthed by archaeologists But a group called the Plantagenet Alliance, claiming to be the Yorkist King's descendants, has asked lawyers to challenge the process under which the exhumation was carried out by Leicester University.
They say that his remains should be buried in York.
An application for a judicial review is to be lodged. They are bringing the action against the Ministry of Justice, which granted the excavation licence, and is being launched under article 8 of the European Convention, which guarantees the right to a private and family life.
The skull of King Richard III Leicester's mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, said: "We have had a number of rather silly suggestions, but the particular one that a king who has been buried for 500 years has a human right to a family life is, to put it mildly, rather daft."
The remarkable discovery in the centre of Leicester has led to a 20-fold increase in tourism.
There are daily queues outside a Richard III exhibition and the council has plans to redesign the area around the cathedral before holding an "extraordinary event" to reinter the last English king to die in battle.
Richard III was born in Northamptonshire but grew up in Yorkshire and was called Richard of York before he took to the throne. He died in the Battle of Bosworth outside Leicester in 1485.
The Leicester car park under which the king's remains lay The Rev Canon David Monteith, Dean-Elect of Leicester, said: "We are working together to plan for a reinterment, hopefully in the spring of 2014.
"We are working flat out to make sure that is going to be an extraordinary event. We are going to make history that day and the whole world is going to be watching Leicester.
"We are here to serve the whole people of the community and Richard's arrival here with us, enables us to do that better.
St Martin's Cathedral, Leicester, where King Richard III is to be buried "We have looked at him, he has looked at us for the last 500 years.
"As it were we are now becoming more acquainted and we are really looking forward to him being reinterred here in the heart of the cathedral."
Those in Leicester are confident of fighting off any legal challenges. They are hoping that a senior member of the Royal Family will attend the event in spring next year.
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