![]() If so, then she should share the same mitochondrial DNA (mt-DNA) as the princes, and a comparative mitochondrial DNA test between her and the bones should go a long way towards saying whether or not they are those of the missing princes. However, in his last book, The Mythology of the ‘Princes in the Tower’, the late John Ashdown-Hill, who did so much work to help identify Richard III‘s bones in Leicester, revealed that he had found a living female-line (i.e., mother-to-mother) descendant of Jaquetta of Luxembourg, the mother of the princes’s mother, Elizabeth Woodville she is English opera singer Elizabeth Roberts (for more details, see this article in The Independent). An urn in Westminster Abbey is said to contain their bones, but that is not known with any certainty. The boys were sent to live in the Tower of London, and their fate has never been known for sure. When their father died in 1483, they were still children, so their father’s brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, became Lord Protector, and quickly made himself king, as Richard III. 1473) were the sons of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. 2 November 1470) and Richard, Duke of York (b. But the Evans chantry is instead overlooked by a politically-charged stained glass window depicting a saint-like Edward V, the deposed boy king thought to have been murdered 26 years earlier.Edward V (b. The chantry was usually intended for prayers to speed the donor’s soul through purgatory and onwards to heaven. Laden with symbolism and hidden meaning, it is here that the researchers claim Evans left multiple clues to his true identity. If Edward was indeed John Evans, then he kept quiet for years until around 1511, when he built his own chantry at the local St Matthew’s church, which looks much the same today as it did 510 years ago. It is possible that Edward was sent here to live in secrecy as part of the deal that we know was agreed between Richard and his mother,” said John Dike. “This man John Evans was given these prestigious titles despite apparently arriving out of the blue, which is odd to say the least. The grant does not appear in any official chancery documents, and no record has been found of Evans’ life before his arrival in Devon. Two days later on March 3, royal documents reveal that Richard sent a trusted follower named Robert Markenfield on an unknown mission from Yorkshire to the remote Devon village of Coldridge, which lay within Thomas Grey’s seized lands.Īt some point afterwards, a mysterious person called John Evans arrived in the same village and was granted the titles Lord of the Manor and ‘Parker’ of the deer park behind the church, where ran 140 “beasts of the chase”. According to the narrative handed down by Tudor authorities, and popularised by William Shakespeare, their evil uncle Richard then had his young nephews quietly murdered before taking the throne for himself. King Edward V and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury were aged 12 and nine when they were lodged in the Tower, in preparation for Edward’s coronation after the death of his father Edward IV.īut before the young king could be crowned the brothers were declared illegitimate. ![]() “Once you take all the clues together, it does appear that the story of the princes in the Tower may need to be rewritten.” “The evidence suggests that Edward was sent to live out his days on his half-brother’s land as long as he kept quiet, as part of a deal reached between his mother and Richard III, and later with Henry Tudor. But the discoveries inside this church in the middle of nowhere are extraordinary. ![]() “With all the secret symbols and clues, it sounds somewhat like the Da Vinci Code. ![]() “The idea of a missing prince lying low in Devon might appear fanciful at first,” lead researcher John Dike told the Telegraph. The team is led by Philippa Langley, who commissioned the dig that found the bones of Richard III under a Leicester car park in 2012. The four-year "cold case investigation" called The Missing Princes Project has more than 100 lines of inquiry including the possible fate of the younger brother, Richard of Shrewsbury. ![]()
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