(the) Princes in the Tower
- (the) Princes in the Tower
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a name given to the two young sons of King ↑
Edward IV,
i.e. the boy king ↑
Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of ↑
York 3 (1472–83
), who went to live in the royal ↑
apartments (= private rooms) in the ↑
Tower of London in 1483 after their father died. They disappeared, and some people believe they were murdered either by ↑
Richard III, who had become king, or by ↑
Henry VII. The bones of two young children found in the Tower and tested in 1933 are believed to be theirs.
See also ↑White Tower
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