Mystery of the Two Princes: Were the Remains Found at the Tower of London REALLY the Two Princes?
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- In 1674 renovations were being done on the Tower of London. Workmen found the skeletal remains of what appeared to be children underneath the staircase of the White Tower. It was immediately and unequivocally assumed that these remains were that of the two sons of King Edward V.
In 1933 it was decided to re-examine the bones to see if any conclusions or further information could be ascertained. When the urn was openea two partial, Skeletons oT children's remains were found. There were al two skulls, one of which|was badly damaged, in there was also a collection of other miscellaneous bones from different animals: as well as a few rusty nails. So were thee Two bones that were found at the Tower of London REALLY the two princes? For now that centuries old mystery still remains unsolved.
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This was so incredibly presented. I never knew that it was More who shaped our beliefs on this event. Tudor propaganda at its finest!
More and Shakespeare! Yes!
Such an interesting mystery!! If only the bones could talk! Thank you so much for sharing this incredible tale. 👍🏼♥️
Agree! I think if some of the bones could talk they’d tell us they aren’t the princes! 😉
Yep, also agree… it’s amazing how lives were simply thrown away back then…. Or even today 😢
Wonderful video. ❤
Thank you so much! 💚🏰
Woow great video! So evil Richard decided to come up with a loophole and mentioned his brother was ment to marry another women? And for that reason he should be king!!! I don’t understand how anyone can think that would have been valid reason considering he didn’t marry the “other” women and had 2 sons with his current wife. Amazing how parliament worked in those days.
The Woodville was maaaaaaaaaaaaajorly disliked. I have a video about that woman who Edward IV was betrothed to coming out soon!
Really looking forward to that video.
We'll never know because they refuse to do a DNA test, the only way to determine their heritage conclusively. Princes are dead now we know that at least lollllll
Skeletons found in the tower were the two servants that were used to pretend they were the two princes. They were used to fool King Richard and were, sadly, killed. MY vote is the two bodies found in child-sized coffins, hidden in the wall near their parents buriel, are the two young boys.
This is SUPER my vote as well. I think they are at Windsor!
That's what they want you to believe the men that buried the bones they were put in theirs father's casket
@@DeboraNorton no they were put in the tomb of their father
@@AshleyMartin-f3x the remains, which were buried near Edwards IV and Elizabeth are said to be Prince George who died as a toddler princess Mary who died as a teenager.
The bones buried near Edward IV and Elizabeth are thought to be those of Prince George who died as a toddler and princess Mary who died as a teenager.
Can I just think that someone helped them escaped and they lived their life out peacefully? This story is so interesting but sad!
There are many that DO think that! So yes you are totally allowed! 💚
I believe that Richard III (with help) had them sent away to save them.
Not likely as surely they would've come to light as adults at some stage, wouldn't you think?
@@juliejenkins2376 I believe Perkin Warbeck was Richard, Duke of York.
One thing that has always puzzled me is if Perkin really was a Flemish commoner why was he buried by Henry VII in Austin Pryor's which was reserved for the high nobility. It makes no sense.
Until dna is done, it will remain unsolved
Absolutely true!
Even if they are the two Princes it won't tell us who killed them and why.
@@l.plantagenet That’s very true. While it may identify them there were at least two people who wanted them gone. Richard the III for obvious reasons and Henry VII because they were a threat to his legitimacy as king of England. After all Henry VII was descended from the House of Plantagenet from both his Mother (Margaret Beaufort via her father who was a grandson of John of Gaunt) and his father (Owen Tudor via his grandmother Margerd ferch Tomos who was a descendant of Llywelyn the Great and an illegitimate daughter of King John, who incidentally was also an ancestor of the Princes of the Tower via their father being a descendant of the Mortimer family). So while Richard and Henry VII both had royal blood from both sides of their respective families Henry’s was illegitimate (the Beaumont only being legitimated after the marriage of Katherine Swynford to John of Gaunt as well as decrees passed by Richard II and Pope Boniface IX but even then their descendants weren’t in the line of succession and Joan of Wales being an illegitimate child).
@@mirandagoldstine8548 I agree with most of it, but why would Richard III want to get rid of them considering that Parliament had already declared them illegitimate?
Is it because of uprisings for the Princes or because Parliament could change their minds on it then why not kill Edward of Warwick? He was removed from the line of succession after his father, George, had committed treason for the third time and executed. However, as we know with Parliament they could have just as easily put him back into the line of succession. Richard looked after him and his sister, Margaret, provided them with a comfortable life, education, etc. Like I said, I agree with everything you wrote, but wanted to bring that out.
Take care. 🙂
@@l.plantagenet I know and that’s the problem. People who believe Richard III was behind their disappearances always say it was because they were threats to his legitimacy to the crown but the same could be said of Henry VII. The only reason why he was able to become king in the end is because he married Elizabeth of York, the princes’ sister, who gave him legitimacy to the throne despite the fact his bloodline connection was full of illegitimate children of the Plantagenet family thus he would have no legal right to the throne. Honestly if the princes weren’t murdered I suspect the reason they vanished is because both died from disease. According to what I read Edward (the older of the two princes) was suffering from an infection of the jaw at the time but if that didn’t kill him then I suspect it was the still enigmatic and still unidentified sweating sickness that did Edward and Prince Richard in. Unfortunately the only way to positively know if any of the bones are from the late 15th century and are thus the bones of the princes is for genetic genealogy to be done. For all I know those bones found in the 17th century were from reliquaries left over from when the tower was a royal residence and were thought to have been destroyed when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in England.
This is heartbreaking. These poor children trusted their Uncle. Tragic
This is one of my favorite and fascinating historical stories. Well done, I like the narration.
Thank you so much!! So glad you enjoyed! There are certain moments and stories in history that endure time. This is definitely one of them!
It just really makes you wonder how things would have played out had the boys not been killed. Would life have been worse or better than it was with henry viii and bloody mary. Things that make you go "hmmm"
Wonderful video, as always.
There are so many of these what if moments in history! No Tudor dynasty if they princes had lived!
@@EvelynEdwards it would be fun if someone made a series of these "what ifs" I would watch that show.
@@melindalopez3978 that would be a GREAT series!
@@EvelynEdwards someone needs to pitch that to BBC (but a bbc channel i can see here in the US)
There's no proof that they were even killed while in the Tower. I think that they were sent away for safety reasons.
Wow, your a great videographer and story teller Evelyn.
Ohhh thank you friend! 🥰🥰🥰💚🏰
Absolutely wonderful, Evelyn! Such drama associated with these families, all for power. It's so interesting that so many years have passed and yet there's so much speculation over this history. Thank you for the great footage from the Tower!
Thank you Cynthia! It’s true- so many children were caught in the pursuit of power of the adults around them. 💚💚
A mystery I would love to see solved, but i know most likely never will. IMO, it's hard to have an opinion as to what happened to them and at who's hand
Agree and agree!
Do you think the boys escaped like the woman who found Richard does?
Ohhhh well! I think there is a very good possibility one died of illness in the tower …the second could possibly have been taken somewhere.
Some people think that Edward V died due to some dental problems and that Richard, Duke of York, survived. I think he was Perkin Warbeck.
I think they were either smuggled out and sent abroad or died of one of the common ailments that were prevalent then. It's well documented that their doctor suddenly started visiting the boys alot more after they stopped being seen in public.
@@JanetTruelove totally agree. I actually highly side on that one died in the tower of disease or illness.
@@l.plantagenet ohhhh I think Perkin was legitimately a pretender personally.
Really interesting, nice video ❤!
Thank you so much Jonas! So glad you enjoyed! 🏰💚
Why were the bones of so many children found? 😢 I feel like crimes against children has taken place here over the centuries. Is there anyway to determine the causes of their deaths? Have we tried to do DNA analysis to see if there are any living matches?
There were many children that went to the Tower of London. Sometimes they went with their parents when they were imprisoned there. Many died of illness while inside.
As for testing of any bones that are believed to be the princes - no. Permission must be granted from the monarch and the archbishop of Cantebury. And that has not been given.
A regular historical mystery! So much speculation and hearsay who to believe!? 😢
Exaaaaaaactly! When someone says they know exactly who did it I go 🧐
Again, a cruel tale. I am thankful they had one another 🙏
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Maybe Henry the seventh murdered the children😢Wonderful video . Greetings from Spain.
There are people that believe his people are suspects. I don’t personally find that evidence compelling… but you never know!! 💚🏰💚
i always thought it was Margaret Beaufort , Henry Tudors mother who orchestrated the murder of the princes as she wanted her son on the throne
@@jeanglendinning1860 that theory is a hard no for me. But in the end the truth is we just really don’t know!
Henry the seventh could also be a suspect for the murders of the prince's. Also the Duke of Buckingham, he was also in the line of succession.
Those are all possible suspects yes. Henry VII is a hard sell for me personally. But 🤷🏼♀️.
Henry the VII did not seem to know exactly what had happened to the princes. My top suspect would be the Duke of Buckingham or perhaps Margaret Beaufort, Henry's mother. Both were in London at the alleged time.
Margaret Beaufort.
Having trouble posting the rest of my above reply. If the princes were indeed murdered as alleged, better suspects than Richard would be the Duke of Buckingham and Margaret Beaufort, Henry's mother, who were both in London at the time.
@@deborahjesser2028Philippa Gregory's books and the TV series made from them: White Queen, White Princess, Spanish Princess = they all imply that it was Margaret Beaufort who had them killed. (I know that the books & series are fictionalised.)
The series also say that Elizabeth Woodville put a curse on the male line of whoever killed her two boys. So if going by history (that the male Tudor line ended with Edward VI, then her curse worked. (if one believes in curses, lol. But then during those days, people were very superstitious.)
Henry VII had a much greater motive than Richard III.
My personal thoughts are why go through all the trouble of delegitimization if you’re going to off them? But 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
Thanks!
Thank you so so much Dianne! 💚💚🙏🏻🏰
If only they were aloud to test the DNA
Don’t think that will ever happen. There isn’t an appetite to set a precedent of opening Royal tombs.
This was so fascinating. You're a great storyteller.😊
Thank you so much!! So glad you enjoyed!
Wow, what a story laced with mystery.
Could they do a dna test on all these bones??? They did one on Richatd the 3rd.
Sure. But they would have to get permission from Charles III and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Someone wanted the Norman side gone.
Thanks Evelyn. Edgar Allan Poe was probably inspired.
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DNA test can help resolve to find out if it was them or not. Time to resolve it once and for all.
Won’t happen. There is a huge reluctance to set a precedent to open Royal tombs.
This story had always been fishy to me. Pretty sure the Uncle murked the young princes and covered it up.
Did you watch the video 🤔 🧐
Welp, thanks a lot Evelyn just fell down another rabbit hole 🤌🤌
😁😁😁😁 we like history rabbit holes!!!
They should exume the remains again. With today's technology they may find the real answers.
They could. But would have to get permission from the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
We should bind King Richards powers and principalities. Child crimes aren't healthy for adults
I don’t understand what this comment means? Bind?
I wonder all the time what happened to these two boys.
Me too friend. Me too.
Can they not be DNA tested now?
Sure. But which set of bones? And the big BUT is that the king and the Archbishop of Canterbury have to say that can be done. And they haven’t done that and probably won’t.
Of course they were
Of course they were what?
@@EvelynEdwards of course it was them
@@AshleyMartin-f3x of course it was them what? I don’t know what this means.
@@EvelynEdwards he killed the princes and put them on the stairs
@@AshleyMartin-f3x if that’s what all the information available leads you to believe…to each their own!
Very interesting thank you
My absolute pleasure! So glad you enjoyed!
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That was an amazing video!!!
Thank you so much! So appreciated!!
Thanks!
Oh friend you are so wonderful! THANK YOU! 💚🏰💚
😮😮😮😮 So so sad
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