Jammer Wrote:
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> There is actually a 3rd suspect...
>
> Elizabeth.
>
> Consort to Richard III, wife & justifier Royal
> of Henry the VII... she was a very important
> figure to the throne claimants, provided her claim
> could be reinstated. If the 2 princes were alive
> however, they would both have prior claim.
>
> I am not saying she killed them herself, but she
> well could have motivated Richard to do so. Henry
> never would have reinstated her throne claim &
> married her unless he KNEW the princes were dead.
>
> They disappeared on Richard's watch, he had
> possession of them, motive, & means.
>
> Good night sweet prince(s)
>
> Jammer
>

Richard was married to Anne Neville. As far as I know, the suggestion that he had intended to marry his niece, Elizabeth of York, is pretty much rumor, and does not a consortship make.

I still think that, Richard aside, the man with the most urgent need for the young Yorkist princes to be dead would have been Henry Tudor; the union with Elizabeth was valuable buttressing for his reign, but she only would be the heiress to the Yorkist claims with her brothers dead.

Meanwhile, what with all the politic-serving rumors and propaganda surrounding the issue, this is all yet another job for Time-Machine Historian.



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