Princes in the Tower Disappear

1483

Edward V and his younger brother Richard of York were last seen playing in the Tower of London's garden. Then silence. Their uncle, now Richard III, never explained. Their bones, probably, were buried under a staircase in 1674. Five centuries of accusation still cannot prove who ordered what. Skeletons found under a Tower staircase in 1674 were reinterred in Westminster Abbey, though DNA analysis has been consistently refused.