Leicester in the East Midlands is a city rich with history and culture, and has many interesting facts to its name. The city is the final resting place of the last Plantagenet king, Richard III, who was discovered in 2012 to be buried under a carpark. Leicester Cathedral, where the king now rests, has history that can be traced back nearly a whole millennium. The Cultural Quarter is where much of the city’s buzzing atmosphere can be traced back to, with a number of galleries, theatres, exhibitions and museums within its confines. Always one to be Back to the historical aspects of Leicester, you may be interested to hear that it was Leicestershire where the great British afternoon tea was invented. In the mid 1840s, the Duchess of Bedford visited Belvoir Castle and requested some cakes, sandwiches and tea to satisfy her cravings, and well, it became a thing of tradition.