WHICH aspect of the re-interment service for Richard III does Mary Morton (Letters, March 31) consider to have been a pantomime?

The version of Psalm 150 arranged by Philip Moore, Organist Emeritus of York Minster? The Bishop of Leicester in his sermon, advising us to avoid tribalism in civic society? The brilliant poem specially commissioned from the Poet Laureate?

The reverent expressions on the faces of the military bearer party, as they lowered Richard’s coffin into the ground: probably as they recalled comrades who fell during the tours of duty they have served in?

Twenty thousand people filed past Richard’s coffin as it rested in Leicester cathedral. I was one of those who viewed, indeed, touched, Richard’s tomb, hewn from Swaledale stone.

York has so many fine buildings to glory in. Richard III was buried in Leicester the first time. It was Leicester archaeologists who discovered his bones, and Leicester scientists who proved them to be his. I hope there are not many York citizens who are so small-minded as to begrudge Leicester the privilege of laying him to rest with dignity, and of guarding his remains.

Mary Machen, Main Street, Fulford, York.