What happened to the Princes in the Tower in 1483?
24th February 2026 by | Uncategorized
By the summer of 1483, the Tower of London no longer echoed with the sounds of youth.
The laughter that had once drifted across Tower Green had fallen silent, and the fortress resumed its ancient, solemn character.
Two young princes were no longer seen.
Where had they gone?
It was a question whispered on many lips, yet never openly spoken.
The earliest written account comes from Sir Thomas More, who claimed that the boys were smothered in their beds while they slept. More named Sir James Tyrell as the man responsible, aided by two associates, John Dighton and Miles Forrest.
More wrote decades after the events, yet his account deserves careful consideration. Dighton and Forrest sons later knew More personally, and it is entirely plausible that the truth was revealed many years after the crime, passed down quietly within families, spoken only under cover of darkness.
Did Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, order their deaths?
Despite centuries of accusation, there is no direct contemporary evidence proving that he did.
Where the evidence is strong lies elsewhere.
In the will of Sir James Tyrell’s sister-in-law, a chain of office once belonging to Edward V is bequeathed to her son. Such an object could only have passed from the king himself — a powerful material link connecting Tyrell to the fate of the boy king.
Now, more than five hundred years after the princes disappeared, we finally have the means to know the truth.
If the remains held in the white marble urn in Westminster Abbey are indeed those of the two boys, modern DNA testing can confirm it beyond doubt.
And if confirmed, they can at last be laid to rest where they belong —
with their parents, Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, in St George’s Chapel.
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The past is not silent.
We now have the science, the precedent, and the public interest to listen.