My personal opinion is that he should be buried in York, where he wished to be, and with a full Catholic funeral mass, at that. Whatever he was, Richard was England’s anointed king - anointed and crowned King at a grand, solemn and very well-attended ceremony at Westminster Abbey on July 6 1483, and he was of course a Catholic. He was also, in fact, austerely religious, a public benefactor and protector of the Church, a founder of charities, who throughout his life upheld a strict code of sexual morality, in marked contrast to many of his fellow courtiers. He was also an extremely popular King who some dearly loved; the preferences, then, of the large number of his collateral descendents should be respected, just as he respected others' wishes and opinions.
However, it seems likely that he will be buried in Leicester and according to the current formal religious rites of the Anglican Church. Whatever the final decision I hope that he is interred with full regal honours and as soon as possible to mitigate any further fruitless controversy attending the dignity of this good man, particularly as he wasn't only killed, he was brutalised in quite horrific ways and his body forced into a hole in the ground not large enough to accommodate it. This last is unheard of treatment of a King defeated in battle almost everywhere in the world, ever.
Richard III was no more a hunchback than Princess Eugenie of York, Elizabeth Taylor, Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. He had scoliosis and unless you saw him shirtless you would have hardly noticed. He was also a notable and formidable warrior both on horseback and on foot - with the heavy battle-axe his weapon of choice. Even his enemies recognized that. No "cripple" he. BTW, I have scoliosis too and no one has noticed unless or until I've said something.
We just haven't had the opportunity to study their remains in such depth.
