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Historic Royal Palaces has solved one mystery about the bones in the urn in Westminster Abbey. How they’ve done it is not divulged, but they KNOW the bones are those of two boys, aged about 12 and 10.

“….In 1674, two skeletons were unearthed at the Tower. The bones were re-examined in 1933 and proved to be those of two boys aged about 12 and 10, exactly the same ages as the princes when they disappeared….”

Wow! Er, wow….? Hm, as I’ve always understood it there is no way of identifying the gender of the bones, which could just as easily be two girls. Nor is there any way of dating the remains to 1483. From the depth and position of their discovery, it’s much more likely the remains are Roman!

So hush your noise, Historic Royal Palace. Stop brandishing your Tudor agenda roses. For too long now it has suited those in certain high places to blame Richard III for all sorts of imagined crimes. Where is the proof that his nephews were murdered at all, let alone by Richard? There isn’t any, but there is ample evidence that they lived to adulthood and took part in unsuccessful rebellions to topple Henry VII from his stolen throne. But will we find any mention of this in places like Historic Royal Palaces?

Will we heck as like! The existence of the miserable propaganda-obsessed House of Tudor has to be justified at all costs, so Richard III—a good and just king!—is always thrown to the wolves.

Here are two links to interesting articles about the bones in the Westminster Abbey urn: https://www.andrewbeattie.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/here.pdf and https://nerdalicious.com.au/history/the-princes-in-the-urn-why-its-time-to-let-go-of-the-westminster-abbey-myth/.