Digging up an old story

After a period away from any easy Internet connection whilst visiting my grandfather (so he could see his great-granddaughter) in Leicestershire, I popped into Leicester Cathedral to see what is was like.  Richard III was everywhere and he still divides opinion more than 500 years after his death (what hope for Margaret Thatcher then?  At least the opportunity for mischief is reduced, such as sitting Boris Johnson next to Michael  Howard, the man the mayor was supposed to have lied to regarding an extramarital affair).  There is even a Richard III Society who aver that it was Henry VII and not heir man who slew the Princes in the Tower (although not really accounting for Richard reducing them to bastards so he could take the throne or failing to produce them when Henry landed in Wales).
When the remains of Richard III were found beneath a car park, there was much hoo-ha about where he would finally be laid to rest and under what confession.  To avoid a controversy over reburial, given that he died a Roman Catholic, it was decided that there should be a fudge of an ecumenical memorial service for the re-interment.  This is a bit tricksy, since from the excavations, Richard was not accorded a royal burial, but shoved into a casket too small and dumped in the ground, the attendants not even bothering to untie his hands which had been bound for the journey to the resting place.  If anything, he deserves a royal burial, not a re-interment, when the original interment was slipshod to say the least.
Where he should be buried is unresolved.  Leicester Cathedral is determined to bury him there, even though there was no established cathedral at the time of his death (though there was in Saxon times, this was not re-introduced until 1926).  Leicester Cathedral is probably one of the smallest in England and resembles more a large church (which it was before 1926) than a fully-fledged cathedral.  I can understand that the Leicester diocese  believe they are the ones in possession and are desperate to bolster the reputation of their cathedral for tourism purposes.
This is despite the wishes of surviving family members of the last of the Plantagents that he be buried in York Minster, for he was fondly remembered for his administration in the north of England during the reign of his brother.  Even after he failed "the supreme test of his right to rule" (Anthony Cheetham) at Bosworth, the civic records at York detail great "heaviness" and even express - bravely - that he was murdered.
My own feelings is that he should be buried in York, given that his family line was the House of York and also where he was most beloved.  Leicester is displaying opportunism to accrue revenues from tourism and boost its own prestige.  So he died nearby; so what?  Admiral Lord Nelson wasn't weighted and dropped to the bottom of Cape Trafalgar.  Major-General James Wolfe wasn't buried in Quebec.  The Persian emperors Cyrus the Great and Peroz I didn't have their funerals in the Central Asian fastness where they died in battle.  Harold Hardrada wasn't laid to rest in York following his death at the battle of Stamford Bridge, but transported back to Norway.  Likewise, after being fatally floored in combat operations, Swedish kings Gustavus Adolphus and Charles XII were brought back from the foreign fields where they perished, rather than being entombed in the nearest cathedral.  Charles the Bold of Burgundy was initially buried in the ducal church in Nancy following the battle for the town, but his great-grandson, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, thought a more fitting tribute would be to move the body to Bruges, given that the hereditary territories were long-held and firmly established there.  Ottoman sultan Murad I died in the wake of the Battle of Kosovo and though his internal organs were buried in the field of Kosovo, the rest of him was taken to his Anatolian capital city of Bursa.  Given that King Richard's internal organs have long since become dust in the Leicestershire soil, Leicester has its bit of history and so the skeleton should be placed in York.
The case for York seems overwhelming to me.  I have nothing against Leicester, its cathedral, nor the university team that exhumed the late English monarch.  It just appears to me that it is akin to Ptolemy I hijacking Alexander the Great's body en route to be inhumed with his forebears in Macedonia and having it placed in a mausoleum in Alexandria.  The Graeco-Egyptians gained immense kudos from this coup but it wasn't strictly justice.