Sir, – The Judicial Review brought by the Plantagenet Alliance (March 13-14) might well bring about an “independent consultation process” to decide where Richard III should be laid to rest.

Precedent from the case of the Romanov family and of Richard’s niece-by-marriage, Anne Mowbray, whose remains were discovered in 1965, suggests the King should be re-interred in a cathedral connected with his life and times.

For a third of his life, Richard was Lord of the North, investing his time and concern on the people and places in his lordship.

Middleham, Barnard Castle, Richmond, Scarborough, Helmsley, Pickering, Pontefract, Sheriff Hutton, Ripon and Knaresborough are just some of the places closely connected with his time spent living and governing the North, and returning here from London he termed a “home-coming”.

As such, I invite readers of the D&S to support the campaign to bring Richard back to the North. He worked for the region’s economic regeneration via the Council of the North, and conscientiously guarded the rights of the common man both as northern viceroy and in his parliament of 1484, with laws that benefited the poor and those oppressed by a corrupt legal system.

As an adopted northerner, with a strong connection to York as the second city of the realm, Richard III should be reinterred in the city he loved and in the Minster for which he had great plans. Many historians believe his unprecedented collegiate foundation of 100 priests at the Minster indicates it was to be his mausoleum, and by rights of connection and affection – the location of his son’s investment as Prince of Wales, and possibly that same young son’s burial location – he should be buried there, rather than in a Leicester church he never knew, in a city he only visited in passing on nine days of his life.

While the body of Richard’s faithful lieutenant Robert Brackenbury was brought back after Bosworth to St Mary’s Gainford (Co Durham) for burial, and other Yorkist nobles to their home churches, Henry Tudor deliberately denied this right to Richard’s remains and buried them in ignominy in a place Richard would never have chosen for himself.

Please sign the new petition at epetitions.direct.gov.uk/ petitions/55196 to indicate your support for a York re-interment and join us at facebook.com/ PetitionToBringRichardIiiBack- ToYorkshire.

KIM HARDING Co-chair, Northern Dales Richard III Group Parson’s Lonnen, Barnard Castle.