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The Princes in the Tower

by Alison Weir · 1992

Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did… more

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In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...
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Gloucester instructed the Bishop of London to sentence her to do public penance at St. Paul's, wearing only her kirtle and carrying a lighted taper, a sight that moved many men in the watching crowds to lustful thoughts...
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...Richard III, after learning how the Princes' bodies had been disposed of, 'allowed not, as I have heard, the burying in so vile a corner, saying he would have them buried in a better place, because they were a king's sons. Lo! The honorable heart of a king, for he would recompense a detestable murder with a solemn obloquy!
...the King had several other conspirators executed, "even of his own household' ...When Parliament met in 1484 it passed so many Acts of Attainder that, says Croyland, "we do not read of the like being issued by the Triumvirate of Octavius, Antony and Lepidus.
... only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

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Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill “the Princes in the Tower,” as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely?

Carefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as dozens of modern accounts, Alison Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder. We are witnesses to the rivalry, ambition, intrigue, and struggle for power that culminated in the imprisonment of the princes and the hushed-up murders that secured Richard’s claim to the throne as Richard III.

A masterpiece of historical research and a riveting story of conspiracy and deception, The Princes in the Tower at last provides a solution to this age-old puzz

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1992
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