The Princes in the Tower

Find out if one of history’s greatest cold cases—the imprisonment of two princes in the Tower of London—can finally be solved. Their disappearance led to centuries of mystery and speculation. Were the boys murdered by their uncle, the notorious King Richard III? Or was it a massive conspiracy to hide the truth?

The Princes in the Tower were Edward V and Richard, Duke of York – the sons of King Edward IV, who died suddenly in 1483. After Edward’s death, the princes’ uncle was crowned King Richard III, and the boys were sent to live at the Tower of London. However, they disappeared in the autumn of 1483, and legend has it they were killed on Richard’s orders. But investigators have other theories…

On May 27, 1487, a boy was crowned in Dublin as King Edward of England. The English government’s official record states that he was a pretender to the throne named Lambert Simnel, installed as part of a Yorkist rebellion against the crown. But could “Lambert Simnel” have actually been Edward, the elder prince in the tower?