The Mythology Of The Princes In The Tower John Ashdownhill by John Ashdown-hill 9781445679426, 1445679426 instant download after payment.

   When did the term ‘Princes in the Tower’ come into usage, who invented
it, and to whom did it refer? To the general public the term is
synonymous with the supposedly murdered boy King Edward V and his
younger brother Richard, Duke of York, sons of Edward IV. But were those
boys genuinely held against their will in the Tower? Would their
mother, Elizabeth Widville, have released her son Richard from sanctuary
with her if she believed she would be putting his life in danger? 
   The children of Edward IV were declared bastards in 1483 and Richard, Duke
of Gloucester, was offered the throne. But after Bosworth, in order to
marry their sister Elizabeth of York, Henry VII needed to make her
legitimate again. If the boys were alive at that time then Edward V
would once again have become the rightful king.
   Following the  discovery of some bones in the Tower in 1674 they were interred in a
marble urn in Westminster Abbey as the remains of the two sons of Edward
IV. What evidence exists, or existed at the time, to prove these indeed
were the remains of two 15th-century male children? What did the 1933
urn opening reveal?
John Ashdown-Hill is uniquely placed to  answer these questions. By working with geneticists and scientists, and  exploring the mtDNA haplogroup of the living all-female-line collateral  descendant of the brothers, he questions the orthodoxy and strips away
the myths.