Daily Mail News
By HARRY HOWARD, HISTORY CORRESPONDENT
PUBLISHED: 06:33 EST, 17 November 2023 | UPDATED: 09:59 EST, 17 November 2023
The amateur historian who found Richard III’s remains beneath a Leicester car park has unearthed evidence that could upturn the central theory about what happened to the Princes in the Tower.
It has long been believed that 12-year-old King Edward V and his brother, nine, were murdered by their uncle Richard III in 1483 so he could become monarch.
But bombshell new documents unearthed by Phillipa Langley suggests that both boys survived their imprisonment in the Tower of London.