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Jul 11, 2018 · Essex Historian Dr John Ashdown-Hill has discovered the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the so-called ‘Princes in the Tower', making it possible for the first time to prove whether bones held in Westminster Abbey are those of Edward V and his brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York.
Sep 4, 2020 · QUEEN ELIZABETH II has repeatedly denied forensic access to the remains thought to belong to the medieval Princes in the Tower, even though such an investigation could put an end to centuries...
Oct 14, 2022 · King Charles could back a full inquiry aimed at finally solving the 539-year-old “Princes in the Tower” murder mystery with the launch of a DNA investigation, royal sources have said.
Dec 4, 2023 · For more than 500 years, history has judged that the Princes in the Tower were murdered on the orders of their uncle Richard III. Until now there has been very little proof - it is quite simply history’s greatest cold case.
- Amy Irvine
- 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...
Jul 11, 2018 · The new DNA evidence – obtained from a recently identified direct descendant of the Princes in the Towers’ maternal grandmother – could ultimately prove Richard’s guilt or innocence ...
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Feb 9, 2021 · Two small human skeletons were found at the Tower of London in 1674, but there is no conclusive evidence that these were the princes, despite a perfunctory examination in 1933 concluding that...
