Speaking at Sandon Literature Festival in Staffordshire, she said: ‘He has said he would like an investigation to go ahead, so that we can determine, once and for all, how the young royals died.’ However Charles ‘takes a very different view’ and is said to support DNA testing, according to Borman. According to Tracy Borman - joint chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces which manages some of our unoccupied royal palaces - the late Queen blocked any such investigation. But with no first hand accounts or DNA evidence, the disappearance of the brothers remains a mystery.įor years experts and history fanatics have wanted to run tests on the remains of four children, two found in the Tower of London in the 1600s and two in the grounds of Windsor Castle in the 1700s, who some have suggested could be those of the princes.īecause the bodies are now interred in royal crypts, experts need permission from the Monarch to carry out the tests. The theory was popularised by William Shakespeare in his Richard III play, though some historians suggest the story is simply a piece of Tudor propaganda spread after his death to smear his legacy. Legend has it that the pair were murdered at the request of Richard, to prevent a claim against his own.

The two brothers, who while in prison were declared illegitimate heirs by Richard, then the Duke of Gloucester, were never to be seen alive again. The tale goes that Edward, who was set to become king following his father’s death, and his younger brother, were locked in the Tower of London in 1483 by their scheming uncle who would instead claim the crown – as Richard III – for himself. The Queen refused permission for testing of the remains but the new monarch, who is a fan of archaeology having studied it at Cambridge, is said to back an investigation of the bones believed to be those of Princes Edward and Richard.

The infamous 539-year-old murder mystery of ‘The Princes in the Tower’ could soon be solved, with King Charles said to be ‘supportive’ of plans for a DNA investigation of bones believed to be those of the two boys.

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