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Feb 9, 2021 · But it's Thomas More's account that provides this latest evidence in favor of Richard III having ordered the princes killed, according to Tim Thornton, a historian at the University of...
- Theory 1: Richard III Murdered The Princes
- Theory 2: Henry Stafford Killed The Boys
- Theory 3: Henry VII Slew The Brothers
- Theory 4: Margaret Beaufort Killed The Princes
- Theory 5: The Boys Survived
For hundreds of years, it has been popularly held that the ‘Princes in the Tower’ were murdered on the orders of their uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1452-1485). On the death of Edward IV(1442-1483), King of England, in April 1483, his brother Richard became Lord Protector of the realm. The king was survived by his two young sons. Far from bei...
After the death of Edward IV in April 1483, the Duke of Buckingham, Henry Stafford (1455-1483), supported the Duke of Gloucester in his successful royal coup. By November Richard had had him killed. He was attained (executed and stripped of lands and titles) for his leading role in the failed ‘Buckingham’s Rebellion’ of that autumn. What had made H...
Henry VII (1457-1509) was the great progenitor of the Tudor royal dynasty and a talented king, nicknamed ‘The Huckster King’ for his shrewd handling of overseas trade deals. After his famous victory at Bosworth in 1485, Henry was clearly determined that he and his descendants should possess the throne. Dispatching his enemies on the battlefield and...
Lady Margaret Beaufort has often been touted as a suspect killer because of her evident determination to get her son Henry Tudor’s backside onto the throne. One hypothesis that has been put forward says that Margaret secretly had the boys killed or hidden and then, with the princes out of the way and with the blame shifted on to Richard, she was sa...
In 1674, builders at the Tower unearthed the skeletal remains of two people, 10ft below the foot of a staircase. These were declared to be the bones of the princes and were reinterred in Westminster Abbey a few years later, despite Tyrrell’s confession to More that the bodies had been moved from there. A controversial 1933 analysis of these remains...
Feb 4, 2021 · Two skeletons unearthed at the Tower of London in 1674 may belong to the princes, but their identities have never been confirmed.
- Meilan Solly
Holinshed's Chronicles, written in the second half of the 16th century, claims that the princes were murdered by Richard III. The chronicles were one of the main sources used by William Shakespeare for his play Richard III, which also portrays Richard as the murderer, in the sense that he commissions Tyrrell to have the boys killed. A. J.
Apr 26, 2024 · She argues that the dominant narrative — that Richard III had the princes killed to take the throne — is little more than rumor that calcified into fact over 500 years.
- Amelia Nierenberg
Richard III. The prime suspect has long been Richard III. He had invalidated his nephews’ claim to the throne and had himself crowned king. His increasing paranoia as his enemies multiplied led him to having a close ally, Lord Hastings, arrested and executed at the Tower.
Feb 11, 2021 · The assassination of two young boys in line for England's throne secured the monarchy for King Richard III, and new evidence links him to their murder.
