Chain Linked to Prince Edward V Found in 16th-Century Will - Medievalists.net

A recent discovery in The National Archives has shed new light on the enduring mystery of the Princes in the Towe

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Our bonus episode 'The Tower' concludes our Seventh Season, and begins immediately after previous episode 'The Sailor' with Morag Peers.

Here we find host Andrew and guest Morag thrown into the midst of one of history's biggest mysteries - What happened to the Princes in The Tower?

Full episode from wherever you get your podcasts.

https://familyhistoriespodcast.com/2024/07/30/s07ep08-the-tower-bonus-episode/

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S07EP08 - The Tower (Bonus Episode) - The Family Histories Podcast

Having accidentally made the secret time machine move, Andrew and his guest Morag realise they are part of one of history's most baffling disappearances.

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Yesterday I was listening to the podcast #NotJustTheTudors. There were two historians debating the possible survival of the #PrincesInTheTower. I was so disappointed with how unconvincing the one challenging the accepted history was. I could refute most of his arguments without any expertise.

E.g. he felt it was convincing how elaborate the accounts of these supposed princes were. Yeah, when people lie they tend to invent a lot of details.

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Join #HistoricalFiction author Alex Marchant as she shares her inspiration for The Order of the White Boar series.

What really happened to the Princes in the Tower? Discover more in Alex's fascinating guest post!

https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/12/join-alex-marchant-sharing-inspiration-for-the-order-of-the-white-boar.html

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Join #bestselling author Alex Marchant as she shares her inspiration for The Order of the White Boar Series #HistoricalFiction #MissingPrinces #BookSpotlight #TheCoffeePotBookClub @AlexMarchant84 @cathiedunn

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RE: The Princes in the Tower theory

I just listened to We're Not So Different's episode on it and it summed up what I thought with a lot of additional stuff I hadn't even considered before. Highly recommend giving it a listen if you're interested in Langley's theory ⬇️
https://www.spreaker.com/user/16979728/ep-143-princes-in-the-tower-news

Also I'll use this opportunity to say that We're Not So Different is an amazing podcast about medieval history and breaking the narrative of the "Dark Ages", so if you're into history, check it out!

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Princes in the Tower News

as you may have heard, the Princes in the Tower are in the news again, 540 years after their supposed deaths. recently, Philippa Langley, who famously help find Richard III's body in a parking lot back in 2012, hosted a television special in the UK which alleged a new theory about the Princes in the Tower: they survived and later returned to the island in attempts to take back the throne. as you may recall from our series on the Wars of the Roses, the historical consensus is that the young Princes were murd

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Discover The Coffee Pot Book Club #BookOfTheMonth December:

🌟King In Waiting by Alex Marchant🌟

An evocative collection of two novels about Richard III and the Princes in the Tower!

https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/12/book-of-month-king-in-waiting.html

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Book of the Month: King In Waiting by Alex Marchant #HistoricalFiction #PrincesInTheTower #BookOfTheMonth

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#OnThisDay, November 23, in 1499, pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck was hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London; he had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England (depicted in Princes in the Tower, 2005)

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Happy Thanksgiving to our American followers! Did you watch The Princes in the Tower last night? #RichardIII #PrincesInTheTower

Discover The Coffee Pot Book Club #BookOfTheWeek:

💫The Godmother's Secret by Elizabeth St.John💫

If you knew the fate of the Princes in the Tower, would you tell, or keep the secret?

https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/11/book-of-week-the-godmothers-secret-by-elizabeth-stjohn.html

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Book of the Week: The Godmother's Secret by Elizabeth St.John

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So I don't know if many people have heard about this, but Philippa Langley has released a new documentary and book that claims that the Princes in the Tower (Edward and Richard, the sons of King Edward IV) were not murdered by Richard III, as the traditional narrative goes. Instead, her claim, backed with some evidence, is that the two Yorkist pretenders that attacked England during the reign of Henry VII were in fact the two princes.

I can't get into all of the details behind this (because I'd be here forever), but after sitting on this for a little while, I feel like this isn't as conclusive as Langley perhaps wants it to be. She makes various assumptions that I don't think you can explain away that easily:
- That Margaret of York and her stepson-in-law Emperor Maximilian wouldn't spend massive amounts of money and resources on people pretending to be the two princes, and therefore they must have been genuine;
- That Irish Yorkists and Europeans attended Edward's coronation in Ireland en masse, and therefore it had to be Edward IV's son and not his nephew (also named Edward) or some guy named Lambert Simnel;
- That Henry VII treated "Perkin Warbeck" (alleged to be Prince Richard) like a nobleman because he really was Richard;

While I do think the evidence is pretty fucking cool, I think you could still draw the conclusion that Margaret of York told Perkin Warbeck to write a "witness statement" (since they never prove that it was written by Richard, only that it was written at the time), that the Emperor wanted a friendly monarch in London and went along with it, that Lambert Simnel really was either Edward IV's nephew or someone pretending to be him, and that Henry VII didn't know whether Perkin Warbeck was really Richard or a fake (which was also stated in the documentary and subsequently ignored) and therefore might have just erred on the side of caution.

In my opinion, this isn't conclusive or "beyond a reasonable doubt". There is reasonable doubt, and this needs to be peer reviewed by other independent historians. Also, I don't have anything against Langley in particular (she did find Richard III's body under a car park in Leicester), but I think publishing this as "conclusive" may have been premature.

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