![]() ![]() It was Georges V who requested that the bones be exhumed for expert appraisal in 1933. ![]() A thorough study was therefore undertaken to know the history, if possible. After all, it is not because two children have disappeared and two centuries later children's bones are found again. The burial of the two boys did not definitively put an end to the question as to who these boys really were. A monument designed by Sir Christopher Wren now marks the supposed place of rest of these princes. The circumstances of the story being considered and having often discussed with Sir Thomas Chichley, Master of the Ordinance, the industry from which the new buildings were then being made, and by whom the matter was reported to the King.Ĭharles II, then the reigning monarch, believing that they were the bones of the two princes, asked the architect Sir Christopher Wren to design a white marble coffin and the bones were reverently placed in the Henry VII chapel at Westminster Abbey, near the tomb of The Prince's Sister, Elizabeth of York. throw the garbage away, caused these breaks to recover the garbage and, thus, have preserved all the bones. The skull of one was whole, the other broken, as were many other bones, so the chest, by the violence of the workers, who. to reconstruct the different offices of the Tower and to erase the White Tower of all the adjoining buildings, digging the stairs that led to the King's house, chapel of the said Tower, about ten feet in the ground, were found the bones of two children in (as it seemed) a wooden chest which, according to the survey, was proportional to the ages of these two brothers, about thirteen And eleven years. ![]() Below is the text of John Knight, chief surgeon of Charles II in 1677: It was only later that it was believed that these were the remains of the two "princes of the tower". At the time these bones were of little importance and were thrown with the rubbish of the staircase. In 1674, workmen employed in the demolition of a staircase of the White Tower, staircase leading to the chapel of Saint-Jean, made a horrible discovery: The bones of two children were found in an elm trunk, a depth of about 3m. Traditionalists believe they were killed by their uncle Richard, while the revisionists argue that Richard received the wrong role through Tudor propaganda but that his successor, Henry VII, had the same reason for removing the two boys as they stood on his way to the throne as much as Richard. But specialists do not necessarily agree on this subject, there is a conflict over the place and fate of Edward V and his brother. They were last seen at the end of June 1483 and it is traditionally believed that the most probable reason for their disappearance is that they were assassinated in late summer 1483. He also took charge of the education of his nephews, which consisted of locking them immediately in the bloody tower, which did not yet have that name at the time. Taking advantage of the situation, the latter was officially named "protector of the kingdom" on 8 or 10 May, which is tantamount to ensuring the regency. Now Edward had a brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. The eldest, who is 13 years old, is Edward V, he is accompanied by a younger brother of 9 years barely who has the title of duke of York. Died, leaving behind two sons too young to govern. Paint of Paul Delaroche of 1831, museum of Louvre ![]()
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