Thousands have lined the streets to see the coffin of England's long lost Richard III taken to his final burial, five centuries after his death on the battlefield.
Australian descendents also attended the ceremony. DNA samples taken from Australian woman, Wendy Duldig helped to identify the remains. Two male Australian relatives also provided swabs, confirming his identity.
The remains of the last English monarch to die in battle were discovered under a municipal car park in 2012, 527 years after he was killed in 1485.
The medieval king will be laid to rest on Thursday in Leicester Cathedral, central England, in a service broadcast live on national television.
Five days of events leading up to the burial got under way on Sunday when the king's descendants and archaeologists who excavated his remains laid white roses, the symbol of his royal house, on his coffin.
It was then taken to Bosworth, where he fell in battle. Many attended in period dress and battle armour, and the dead king was honoured with a 21-gun salute.
The Bishop of Leicester, Tim Stevens, said Richard's death marked an "extraordinary moment" in English history.
"It was a change of dynasty, an end of a period of violent civil war, the beginning of the period in which Shakespeare was to write his great tragedies, including Richard III, and a different way of governing the country," he said.
Richard, the last of the Plantagenet dynasty, ruled England from 1483 until he was killed by soldiers loyal to Henry Tudor, later Henry VII.
It was the last major conflict in the Wars of the Roses, and Richard's defeat passed the crown from his House of York to the House of Tudor.
The 32-year-old was buried at Greyfriars monastery, which was demolished in the 1530s during Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.
Richard's remains were thought lost but members of the Richard III Society teamed up with Leicester University archaeologists to excavate the site, predicting where in the old church he would have been buried.
They found a skeleton consistent with contemporary descriptions of the king, notably his curved spine, and battle injuries. Radiocarbon dating showed the man died between 1455 and 1540.
Their discovery was confirmed by a DNA match with Richard's closest living relative - Canadian carpenter Michael Ibsen, who has now made the monarch's English oak coffin.
After visiting the battlefield, the coffin was taken on a horse-drawn cart through the streets before being welcomed with a ceremony at Leicester Cathedral.
Richard lived before Anglicanism was established as faith of the British monarchy, and the sermon was delivered by the leader of England's Catholics, Cardinal Vincent Nichols.
Nevertheless, Richard is to be reburied according to Church of England traditions, although there will be Catholic elements in services throughout the week.
The public can view the coffin from Monday, when Nichols will also celebrate a requiem mass in Leicester's main Catholic church.
On Thursday, Richard's remains will be reinterred in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual head of the Church of England.
Queen Elizabeth II's daughter-in-law Sophie, the Countess of Wessex, will attend, as will her cousin Prince Richard the Duke of Gloucester, patron of the Richard III Society and a blood relative.
The discovery has encouraged scholars to look again at Richard's record of social reform, rather than rely on Shakespeare's Tudor-era portrayal of him as a villainous tyrant murderer.
The chairman of the Richard III Society, Phil Stone, said this week's events would attempt to restore his reputation.
"Our work will continue, in perhaps convincing the doubters Richard wasn't as black as he was once thought to be," he said.
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