Britain’s Prince Richard, a 15th century royal believed to have been murdered, may have lived to become a bricklayer, a university lecturer claims.
When Edward IV died in 1483 his two sons Edward V and Richard were locked in the Tower of London and never seen again, amid reports that their uncle Richard III wanted them removed so he could claim the throne. Two skeletons were discovered hidden in the tower almost 200 years later, but tests have never been able to ascertain whether they are the remains of the lost princes. Now a new book, ‘The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York’, claims young Richard was eventually released to become a bricklayer in Essex. Author David Baldwin, of the University of Leicester, does not believe there is evidence to support previous beliefs that Richard III was responsible for the deaths of his nephews. The historian proposes that Prince Richard was eventually reunited with his mother Queen Elizabeth Woodville and carried on his life in secret. David told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper: ‘Dead princes were a potential embarrassment but a live prince would have been a real danger and closely guarded secret.’
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