Richard III was the fourth son of the House of York, a seemingly benign duke, who had served as Lord of the North under his brother Edward IV – the taller, more attractive, more charismatic, and king-like of the two. The muddied entanglements of the Wars of the Roses are so complex that they can make your brain hurt and want to trace it out in pencil and paper, so I shall try to make it as brief and simple as possible. It is not surprising that the background does not get overly focused on. However, the actual background and facts of the story often get lost within the drama of it all. The story is one of the best known in British history – most people know that ruthless King Richard killed his nephews, as Shakespeare would have us believe. The Princes in the Tower is an episode in British history so shrouded in mystery that still, over 500 years later, we are still discovering clues, still creating theories as to what might have happened to the boys.
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