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Hello, I'm Professor Susanna Lipscomb and welcome welcome to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit,

the podcasts in which we explore everything from Anne Boleyn to the Aztecs,

from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise,

relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft.

Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors.

Edward V and Richard and Richard Duke of York were two young boys who never became what their father,

King Edward IV, intended.

In 1483, their paternal uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, lodged the boys in the Tower

of London in preparation for Edward V's upcoming coronation.

But Gloucester then declared the boys illegitimate and himself acceded to the throne as Richard III.

The story of the two boys has become one of mythical proportions, the mystery of the princes in the tower,

most popularly said to be murdered by their evil uncle. But history never stands still. And in the

past couple of years, we've seen the reanimation of a story that circulated in the 1490s, intertining

Edward V and Richard Duke of York with a story of

the Pretenders under Henry the 7th, those who made a claim to his throne. It's a story of

twists every bit as delicious as everything else in the long Tudor century. Were the pretenders

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