
The disappearance of Princes Edward and Richard in 1483 has captured imaginations for centuries - does a new Channel 5 documentary finally reveal what happened to them?
Channel 5 documentary, Princes in the Tower: A Damning Discovery, not only brings back to life one of the most infamous crimes in English history, but suggests it has fresh evidence to support what really happened to the missing Princes. At the ages of nine and twelve, the deposed King Edward V of England and his younger brother Prince Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, were taken to the Tower of London under the protection of their uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester.