Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
The fate of Richard III''s two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial centuries after Thomas More''s history and Shakespeare''s play laid the blame on their conniving uncle. Some later writers, unconvinced of the king''s guilt, have tried (with little success) to portray him as an innocent victim of Tudor propaganda, point...
The fate of Richard III''s two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial centuries after Thomas More''s history and Shakespeare''s play laid the blame on their conniving uncle. Some later writers, unconvinced of the king''s guilt, have tried (with little success) to portray him as an innocent victim of Tudor propaganda, point...
