Following the publication of Philippa Langley‘s “The Princes in the Tower”, the Channel Four documentary and other media appearances, those to whom the conclusions of her team are most inconvenient are showing signs of not having read, watched or listened to these contributions probably. Although the conclusions are not significantly different from those of Field, Baldwin, Lewis, they are backed by much new evidence. The simplest possible explanation to satisfy all the facts is that both remaining sons of Edward IV were alive at least as late as 1487 and that the two principal rebels of Henry VII’s reign were exactly who they claimed to be. The former Edward V was crowned in 1487 and was either killed or retired that year, subseqquently being buried somewhere. His brother was buried in a Priory graveyard in 1499, but the Blitz compromised finding him.
As you would expect, the denialists have been trying to confuse people, not least by wilfully confusing a historian with a track record with a prolific novelist who shares her forename.
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