The Fate of the Missing Princes

To save the kingdom, he had to become king. To become king, he had to silence

two little boys. King Edward dies, leaving a twelve-year-old heir. Uncle Richard swears

to “protect” him—inside the Tower of London. Protection meant locking the princes behind stone walls…

and never letting them out again. Richard then arrests the boys’ loyal uncle,

executes their half-brother, and tells Parliament the kids are illegitimate. In three weeks he’s crowned Richard

III. But rumors leak: the Tower is “too quiet.” Court whispers turn

into ballads about ghosts in nightgowns. The princes vanish without graves, clothes,

or witnesses. Their mother trades her daughters to the enemy, the Duke of Buckingham