Missing Princes Project and HRH

Overview and Issue

• An overview of the talk given by Philippa Langley at the Dunnett Weekend, 2017
• WG135

Abstract

• The author summarises Ms Langley's new project which is to clear Richard III's name by questioning widely held beliefs and applying forensic analysis to investigate means, motive and opportunity in relation to the death of the two Princes in the tower. She described it as a cold case history investigation – not an academic study but using intelligence gathering. Senior policemen are working with her on the case, one of whom described it as not so much as cold but rather frozen! The HRH in the title stands for Hindsight. The author claims that the most likely scenario was that both Princes survived and if they did not, Richard III was not held accountable by his contemporaries. She notes that there are 75 continuing lines of enquiry currently being pursued. The author also requested that those at her talk be vigilant for any contemporary records covering the period 1483-86 and to forward information to her at https://tinyurl.com/WG135-1.

Author

• Val Asker

Dunnett Book Citations

• (none)

Historical People

• Richard III
• Elizabeth of York
• Henry VII
• Katherine Woodville
• Duke of Buckingham
• Jasper - Henry Tudor's Uncle.
• Anne Mortimer
• Henry IV
• Edward, Earl of Warwick
• Perkin Warbeck
• Richard, Duke of York - younger of the two Princes.
• Edward IV
• Elizabeth Woodville

Fictional Characters

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Locations

• Westminster Abbey
• Tower of London

Literature

• Josephine Tey: Daughter of Time.
• Bertram Fields: Royal Blood.

Illustrations

• B&W of a Tudor noblewoman.

Historical Events

• Disappearance of the two young Tudor Princes.

Other References

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Quotes from Dunnett

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