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As outlined above, on the orders of Charles II, the presumed bones of Edward V and his brother Richard were interred in Westminster Abbey; Edward was thus buried in the place of his birth. The white marble sarcophagus was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and made by Joshua Marshall.
The skeletons aroused much interest and debate as they were believed by many historians to be the bones of the two princes who were reputedly murdered in the Tower of London in the 15th century. The princes were Edward V and his brother Richard Duke of York, the sons of Edward IV and his Queen, Elizabeth Woodville.
Nov 6, 2022 · We are in a position today where testing the bones in the urn in Westminster Abbey can prove for definite whether they belong to Edward V and Richard, Duke of York.
Edward V, king of England from April to June 1483, who was deposed and possibly murdered (alongside his younger brother) by King Richard III. Responsibility for the crime has also been attributed to the powerful Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham, and to Richard’s successor, King Henry VII.
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Edward V was never crowned. Burial. In 1674 some bones of children were found under a staircase in the White Tower in the Tower of London and assumed to be those of the two boys. The remains were brought to the Abbey by order of Charles II and first buried in the vault of General Monck.
The disappearance of the 'Princes in the Tower', Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York in 1483 is one of the most intriguing 'murders' of the Tower of London. The mysterious episode unfolded with sinister speed over a single summer, yet is still being debated by historians centuries later.
King Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower of London, by Paul Delaroche The Bones in Westminster Abbey. In 1674, workmen employed in demolishing a staircase within the Tower of London, leading to the chapel of the White Tower, made the discovery of the bones of two children in an elm chest, at around a depth of ten feet.
