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The Princes in the Tower: The Two Boy-Kings Who Went Into the Fortress and Were Never Seen Again

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In the year 1483, two young brothers walked into the Tower of London and were swallowed by history. The elder was a boy of twelve named Edward, the rightful king of England, uncrowned but proclaimed. The younger was his brother Richard, aged nine. They were the sons of a dead king, lodged in the great royal fortress by the Thames in the weeks before the elder was to be crowned. Through the summer of that year they were seen from time to time, playing within the Tower's walls. And then the sightings grew rarer, and then they stopped altogether. The two boys were never seen alive again by anyone who left a record of it, and no one has ever proven what became of them. More than five centuries later, the fate of the Princes in the Tower remains one of the most enduring and bitterly argued mysteries in the history of England. The Boys Who Would Be King When their father, King Edward the Fourth, died suddenly in the spring of 1483, the crown passed by right to his eldest son, who beca...