I think this is soooooo wron....digging up bodies. They and their descendants own where they lie.
This was not really the digging up of a body. Richard’s remains were lost and thought to have been thrown into a river. But the Richard the Third Society tracked down where they thought he MIGHT be buried (actually, not buried but dumped) and lobbied the city of Leicester to allow them to dig so that he could be buried as an anointed king of England. The rest is grand history!