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| 0:01 | · | Two boys 12 and 9 years old. Princes. Their father, King Edward IV had just died unexpectedly. |
| 0:16 | · | The eldest of the two boys Edward, had already been announced as the next king of England |
| 0:22 | · | in the streets of London. Both boys were placed in the Tower of London - escorted by their |
| 0:30 | · | uncle, their father's loyal brother Richard. The boy's uncle Richard had been made protector |
| 0:39 | · | of the 12 year old Edward in his father's will. The death of their father caused a huge |
| 0:45 | · | power struggle between their mother's family and their Uncle Richard that would ultimately |
| 0:53 | · | result in their disappearance and their end. Richard had escorted Prince Edward personally |
| 1:01 | · | to the tower, the idea was that it was for his protection. His younger brother followed |
| 1:09 | · | shortly after. At the time, none of these actions were considered odd or malicious. |
| 1:17 | · | The Tower of London was the traditional place that the new monarch would have stayed before |
| 1:22 | · | their coronation ceremony. But instead of Edward having his coronation as was originally |
| 1:29 | · | planned for on June 22 1483, his uncle Richard began the process of having Parliament rule |
| 1:39 | · | that the two princes were actually illegitimate. That their father had been previously betrothed |
| 1:46 | · | to another woman and so his marriage to their mother was invalid and therefore neither would |
| 1:54 | · | be in line to inherit the throne - and the next person who should be king was Richard |
| 2:01 | · | himself. The last records we have of the two princes being seen was written in the Great |
| 2:09 | · | Chronicle on June 16th that the boys had been "seen shooting [arrows] and playing in the |
| 2:16 | · | garden of the Tower sundry times.' Then an Italian diplomat not too long after reported |
| 2:25 | · | a mixture of perhaps gossip and perhaps eyewitness that the princes were "Withdrawn to the |
| 2:32 | · | inner apartments of the Tower proper, and day by day began to be seen more rarely behind |
| 2:40 | · | the bars and windows until at length they ceased to appear altogether. Already there |
| 2:48 | · | is a suspicion that they have been done away with.' In July the two princes' uncle |
| 2:55 | · | was crowned King Richard III. The boys were never seen again and speculation about what |
| 3:06 | · | happened to them has been the subject of debate for centuries. The main suspect has always |
| 3:15 | · | been Richard who had so much to gain with their disappearance. The narrative of what |
| 3:22 | · | happened to the boys and the possible suspects of the crime were not even introduced for |
| 3:28 | · | 30 years after their disappearance and it was done by Henry VIIIs chancellor Thomas |
| 3:37 | · | More. More wrote a dramatic version of what happened in his "The History of King Richard |
| 3:46 | · | IIII" This manuscript was un-finished and was first published years after More's death. |
| 3:55 | · | More who's words have ended up massively shaping the narrative of the history of not |
| 4:01 | · | only Richard III but also the two Princes, was only 7 years old when Richard III died |
| 4:10 | · | at the Battle of Bosworth. Historians have combed through this posthumous re-telling |
| 4:16 | · | of events by Moore that originally had frequent misnaming of important figures names, wrong |
| 4:24 | · | ages given, the use of heresay local gossip and legend as fact is often sited with "as |
| 4:34 | · | some say" "I have heard by credible report"and "they say". It was More who introduced |
| 4:43 | · | the idea that a man named Sir James Tyrell and another named Dighton had confessed to |
| 4:51 | · | murdering the two boys and that the boys were buried underneath stairs at the Tower of London. |
| 5:00 | · | More also went on to later say that a priest had gone to where the bones had been hidden |
| 5:07 | · | and reburied them- the location of the of where the priest put the bones was lost because |
| 5:15 | · | the priest had died. In 1674 renovations were being done on the |
| 5:22 | · | Tower of London. Workmen found the skeletal remains of what appeared to be children underneath |
| 5:31 | · | the staircase of the White Tower. It was immediately and unequivocally assumed that these remains |
| 5:39 | · | were that of the two sons of King Edward IV. The belief was That the finding of these remains |
| 5:48 | · | corroborated the story that More had presented. The bones were ordered by Charles II, who |
| 5:56 | · | was king at the time to be taken to Westminster abbey and reinterred. It wasn't until 4 |
| 6:05 | · | years later that in 1678The bones were eventually placed in an urn- and urn that again stated |
| 6:15 | · | that they were the remains of Edward V and his brother and that they had been murdered |
| 6:22 | · | by their uncle Richard. In 1933 it was decided to re-examine the bones to see if any conclusions |
| 6:33 | · | or further information could be ascertained. When the urn was opened two partial skeletons |
| 6:42 | · | of children's remains were found. There were two skulls, one of which was badly damaged, |
| 6:50 | · | there was also a collection of other miscellaneous bones from different animals as well as a |
| 6:58 | · | few rusty nails. The methods used to determine the ages of two skeletons in the 1930's |
| 7:07 | · | is now considered extremely controversial, even the sex of the remains was not established. |
| 7:16 | · | There were also multiple other sets of children's bones that have been found that could possibly |
| 7:23 | · | be the bones of the two princes. There were remains found when Sir Walter Raleigh was |
| 7:30 | · | imprisoned in the Tower, there remains found when the tower's moat was drained in the mid |
| 7:36 | · | nineteenth century and more still in 1789 when two small child size coffins were were |
| 7:45 | · | found walled up in a 'hidden space' next to the vault holding the coffins of Edward IV |
| 7:53 | · | and Elizabeth Woodville at Windsor Castle. So were the bones that were found at the Tower |
| 8:02 | · | of London REALLY the two princes? For now that centuries old mystery still remains unsolved. |
