The Princes in the Tower

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Matt Lewis concludes his four special episodes on medieval mysteries with perhaps the most enduring historical enigma of them all.

For more than 500 years, people have speculated about the disappearance of King Edward V - aged 12, and his nine-year-old brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. They were lodged in the Tower of London by their paternal uncle the Duke of Gloucester, supposedly in preparation for Edward's coronation. But before the young king could be crowned, Gloucester ascended the throne as Richard III. The brothers vanished - and it’s generally assumed that they were murdered, probably by Richard. But Matt Lewis thinks differently.

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1:33.2	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis. This is the final
1:37.1	instalment in our look at medieval mysteries and frankly from my utterly biased point of view
1:42.4	we've saved the best for last. It's one of those episodes with no guest, just me rattling
1:47.3	on about one of my personal obsessions. I've written a book on this topic, several others that
1:52.1	touch on it and I could literally talk for hours about it. I've been warned not to though,
1:56.8	so I'm going to try and run through some of the key highlights. This is perhaps the most enduring
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