Two boys enter the Tower of London in 1483 and are never seen again. Chuck and Marco unpack England’s coldest case with a clear timeline, the leading suspects (Richard III, Buckingham, the Tudors), and what the evidence actually says—from chroniclers and court politics to the staircase bones and a curious 1516 will that mentions Edward V’s gold chain. We also dig into why this mystery still matters today: legitimacy, propaganda, forensic ethics, and how we read silence in the historical record.
Stay tuned after the episode for our original song: “Ravens Over London (Princes in the Tower)”. 🖤
What you’ll hear
- 1483 timeline: from Protectorate to coronation-that-never-was
- How and when the princes disappear—and who controlled access
- Suspect files, expanded: motive, means, opportunity (no special pleading)
- Evidence check: chronicles, rumors, bones, and the problem of “no bodies”
- Politics of the disappearance: why the incentives point where they do
- Why it still matters: source literacy, law-as-legitimacy, and modern testing debates
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