Pacal Wrote:
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> 7), Why did Henry VII not have a full scale
> investigation into what happened to the princes
> and clarify what happened to them? Especially
> since he, Henry VII, had so clearly benefited from
> their convenient deaths? Instead Henry let the
> whole thing remain mired in speculation and
> hearsay.
>

One notion does come to mind: Henry did not have such an investigation, because it would, in some way, make him seem guilty/complicit. In uncertainty, you can let that speculation and hearsay diffuse unfavorable public opinion.

After all---look at today's "Fake News", as a covering-action. In many conspiracy theories, there is...cover.


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It is hard to convey five-dimensional ideas in a language evolved to scream defiance at the monkeys in the next tree. -- The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen