![]() Their deaths may have occurred sometime in 1483, but apart from their disappearance, the only evidence is circumstantial. It is generally assumed that they were murdered a common hypothesis is that the murder was commissioned by Richard III in an attempt to secure his hold on the throne. It is unclear what happened to the boys after the last recorded sighting of them in the tower. Gloucester ascended the throne as Richard III. Before the young king could be crowned, he and his brother were declared illegitimate. Aged 12 and 9 years old, respectively, they were lodged in the Tower of London by their paternal uncle and England's regent, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, supposedly in preparation for Edward V's forthcoming coronation. The brothers were the only sons of the king by his queen, Elizabeth Woodville, living at the time of their father's death in 1483. The Princes in the Tower refers to the mystery of the fate of the deposed King Edward V of England and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, heirs to the throne of King Edward IV of England. Edward V at right wears the garter of the Order of the Garter beneath his left knee. The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection.
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