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THE SEVEN PRINCES IN THE TOWER

Oct 18, 2015

archaeology, humour, Science

“Princes”, ape, carbon dating, denialists, Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, evidence, fairy tales, George Duke of Bedford, Iron Age, Jean Molinet, Mary, Roman occupation, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas More, Tower of London, Windsor

The title sounds like a fairy tale, doesn’t it? Well, I’m once again going to address the matter of those pesky princes in the Tower as I found myself recently debating with several folks who still want to hang on to a certain rather improbable fairy story about them—the one created by our ‘favourite’ saint,…
Examining an alternative theory

Sep 4, 2015

archaeology, Science

“Beauforts”, Annette Carson, bones, denialists, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth Woodville, George Duke of Bedford, Mary, reductio ad absurdam, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Tanner and Wright, Thomas More, Westminster Abbey, Windsor

For several centuries, some historians and other writers have connected Sir Thomas More’s narrative of the murder of Edward IV’s sons to the bones found in 1674 and declared them to prove his case, even to the point of deluding Tanner and Wright in 1933 into calling the bones “Edward” and “Richard” before they even…