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  1. Oct 14, 2022 · Bookmark. 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 ...

  2. Jul 11, 2018 · The traditional narrative surrounding the so-called Princes in the Tower is deeply problematic – but this new DNA brings solving a number of key questions that much closer,” said Philippa ...

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  3. Nov 6, 2022 · The mystery of the Princes in the Tower has enraptured historians and the public across the five centuries since the two boys disappeared and were never seen again. Shakespeare explored it in his infamous history play Richard III , and this episode in history has formed the inspiration for many pieces of media since- including Game of Thrones .

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  5. Plenty of political figures in this era met with a nasty end, of course, but the princes were minors. The idea of children being murdered strikes most of us with horror, for obvious reasons. Even at the time, the story of the princes being done to death (whatever the truth of their fate) met with widespread disgust.

  6. Nov 27, 2023 · Blog. DNA and The Princes in the Tower. November 27, 2023November 28, 2023 danmoorhouse. The publication of Philippa Langley’s The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case has been accompanied by renewed calls, from some quarters, for the bones held in an urn in Westminster Abbey to be DNA tested to prove whether or not ...

  7. Oct 14, 2022 · One of the great mysteries of English history — whether the Princes in the Tower were murdered by Richard III, the last of the Plantagenets — could be one step closer to being solved.The King ...

  8. Oct 14, 2022 · Academics and historians have long conceded that the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the young Princes in the Tower would never be solved during Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. The late ...

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