History student Georgia Mundy was one of just 200 lucky people chosen out of 14,000 applicants to watch the reburial of King Richard III at Leicester Cathedral.

The 17-year-old of Broomcroft Road in Pewsey entered an online ballot along with other members of her family to see the historic ceremony last Thursday.

Not only was Georgia lucky enough to get a place but she was joined by her grandmother Molly Edge, 84, who was also successful in the ballot, and her aunt Kay Wagstaff, 54, who went as her grandmother’s carer.

She said: “We found out in February and I was so shocked. I couldn’t believe we got a ticket for my nan too.

“I do A-level history and last year we studied Richard III so I knew something about it.

“I told my history teacher and she thought it was amazing and I asked me to do a presentation about it the next day. Everybody was so surprised because of how many people entered.

“I showed the rest of the class pictures and they loved it.”

Richard III, the last English king to die in battle, was killed at Bosworth Field in 1485 at the end of the Wars of the Roses.

His body was dragged from the battlefield and exhibited in Leicester to show the public he was really dead.

On August 24, 2012 the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council, in association with the Richard III Society, announced that they would begin searching for the remains of the king.

The following month his bones were found beneath a council car park in Leicester.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, presided over the service with local senior clergy and representatives of world faiths.

Georgia, who is also studying A-level English language and photography at St John’s in Marlborough, sat opposite actor Benedict Cumberbatch, a distant relation of the king, who read a poem during the service and watched as the coffin was lowered into the ground.

She said: “My aunt and grandmother used to live where he was killed so I’d been there before.

“We parked in the car park where they found his body and made our way through the crowds of people who were watching from behind the barriers. It was amazing.

“Other people who were there saw us talking and they asked if we knew each other. When we explained that we were all chosen in the ballot they couldn’t believe it.”