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The disappearance of the Princes in the Tower is a mystery yet to be solved. No one living today knows exactly what happened to these two boys. However, the circumstances of their disappearance were very suspicious, indeed. Prince Edward and Richard in the tower, by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878.

In 1933 the skeletons of two young boys, one aged about 10 and the other 13, were disinterred from Westminster Abbey and examined by . Tannery and W. Wright. These bones had been re-buried in an urn in 1674 and placed in the Henry VIIth Chapel in the Abbey. The skeletons aroused much interest and debate as they were believed by many historians to be the bones of the two princes who were reputably murdered in the Tower of London in the 15th century. Mr. Tannery and Professor Wright concluded in 1933 that the princes had probably died in the summer of 1483. Sir Thomas More states that the princes were smothered with the pillows on their beds by Sir James Tyrell, John Dighton and Miles Forest. Tyrell is reported to have confessed to the crime in 1502 when under sentence of death for treason.

The subject of the Princes in the Tower cannot be studied without first evaluating the reliability of the few surviving original sources -virtually all we have to rely on. The late fifteenth century is a poorly documented period of English history. Few contemporary chronicles survive and some official records still await examination.

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The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483, by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection. The DNA obviously cannot come from the boys’ direct descendants, since the two of them, Edward V and Prince Richard of York, were assumed to have disappeared before they reached adulthood, married, and had their own children. But the boys’ maternal grandmother, Jacquetta Woodville, is the confirmed ancestor of a modern-day English opera singer, a woman named Elizabeth Roberts, whose female-line mitochondrial DNA scientists were able to isolate. Elizabeth Roberts is the 16 times great-granddaughter of Jacquetta Woodville, also called Jacquette of Luxembourg. King Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower of London, by Paul Delaroche.

The two brothers were the only two sons of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville who both survived when their father’s death in 1483. When Edward was 12 and Richard was 9, they were lodged in the Tower of London by their uncle and Lord Protector Richard Duke of Gloucester (Richard III). At this time it was supposed to be preparing for Edwards coronation as King. However, his uncle Richard (Richard III) took the throne for himself and the two boys disappeared and were most likely murdered. Their death most likely occurred in 1483

The Tower bones are not the only possible remains of Edward and his brother, there are multiple murder suspects besides Richard, and some even believed that at least one of the boys escaped this cruel fate. So what really happened that summer to those innocent young boys? To continue, we have to start at the bloody beginning. The young boy, who had been cloistered away in Ludlow Castle in Shropshire, began to make his way toward London to greet his subjects and begin performing his duties as the presumptive monarch. However, there were darker forces at work: his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, had heard about Edward V’s death and was likewise making his own way down to London-and he seemed quite interested in the royal vacancy the tragedy might have left.