Carlos III could unravel a crime from 539 years ago

It will authorize DNA tests on two bodies found in the Tower of London that are believed to be those of Edward V, 12, and his little brother The two princes disappeared in 1483 when they were to inherit their father’s throne, it is presumed that murdered by his uncle, who was crowned kingThe bodies were found two centuries later and as they are in a royal crypt they require a permit that Isabel II denied and Carlos III is willing to giveKing Carlos III could authorize DNA tests to unravel a crime that was committed 539 years ago. The tests would be carried out on the two bodies found four hundred years ago in the Tower of London and which are believed to belong to the two sons of King Edward IV, Edward and Richard, aged 12 and 9, known as “the princes of the tower”. The eldest was to be crowned king as Edward V after the death of his father, but he disappeared. There are theories that they were murdered by his uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, to keep the crown. Edward IV was the first monarch of the House of York and reigned for two periods, between 1461 and 1470 and between 1471 and 1483, during the war of the two English roses that pitted supporters of the House of York and Lancaster against each other to become with the British throne. He died suddenly on April 9, 1483 at the age of 41. Edward IV had ten children with Elizabeth Woodville, of whom only seven survived her death and only two of them were boys, Edward and Richard. The natural heir was Eduardo and everything was arranged for it to be so. The coronation of the new king was scheduled and was being prepared for May 4. Little Edward, 12, and his brother, 9, were transferred by order of their uncle to the Tower of London, which was then used as a royal palace, before the Tudors turned it into a prison for a few more years. afternoon. They were forcibly taken away because the children were being held at the Woodville family’s home. However, the coronation was postponed due to the legal tricks of his uncle Ricardo and his unlimited ambition, to the point that it was never celebrated. According to medieval chronicles, Edward IV had left his brother as Lord Protector, that is, regent and responsible for his children until they came of age. The conspiracy Richard Plantagenet exposed before parliament that his brother had entered into a formal engagement in 1461, to marry the noblewoman Eleanor Talbot, the daughter of the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, three years before marrying Elizabeth Woodville. He argued that therefore his marriage to Woodville was not valid and his children were not legitimate and therefore could not inherit the throne. Parliament accepted his reasoning and suspended the appointment of Edward V. On June 25, 1483, the Duke of Gloucester was crowned the new King of England and Lord of Ireland as Richard III. At the end of July 1483 there was a noble rebellion led, among others, by Elizabeth Woodville, the mother of the kidnapped princes, who wanted her son reinstated as king, and other noble supporters of the Lancastrians in the war of the wars. two roses The medieval Chronicles of Croyland Monastery state that “in order to free them from captivity, the people of the south and west of the kingdom began to gossip and form assemblies and confederations, many of whom worked secretly, others openly, to this end to free them.” . There is a key character in this rebellion, the Duke of Buckingham, one of the great supporters of Edward III, who began defending him at the beginning of the rebellion and ended up becoming one of his main opponents. Some historians suggest that what made him change his mind was learning about the gruesome crime of the two boys, which he revolted. The rebellion failed and no one ever heard from the princes again. They are believed to have passed away in late July. Some historians suggest that they were suffocated. His fate and end were never known. ShakespeareThe Richard III conspiracy theory was developed by Shakespeare in the play ‘Richard III’, although some experts consider it to be Tudor propaganda of the time. The main suspect, of course, is Richard III, but he is not the only one. In the biography of Carlos III, the thinker and writer Tomás Moro maintains that the murderer was Sir James Tyrrell, an English nobleman servant of Ricardo III, who was the only one who officially confessed to the murder, although his confession loses credibility because it was extracted under torture before being executed for treason in 1502 by Henry VII. Also by Henry VII himself, who fought alongside the Lancasters in the war of the two roses, or his mother, Margarita Beaufort. Richard III’s reign lasted just two years until the Yorks lost the war to the Lancastrians at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, where Richard III died and the Lancastrian Henry VII ascended the throne as the first Tudor. In 1674, while remodeling the Tower of London, under the chapel stairs, workers found a wooden box with two bodies of children who were soon associated with the two princes killed in the tower. The monarch of the time, Charles II, ordered them to be buried in a crypt in Westminster Abbey. Two other skeletons had previously been found in a sealed chamber, which could also be the princes. The first scientific analyzes The only time the bones were removed from their Westminster Abbey urn for examination was when two expert anatomists, Lawrence Tanner and William Wright, carried out scientific analyzes on them in 1933. They concluded that they were indeed the princes and that they died in the summer of 1483. But his evidence is inconclusive. They left many doubts. They found that many of the bones were missing or broken. This analysis has been criticized for being carried out on the assumption that the bones belonged to princes, concentrating on whether the bones showed evidence of suffocation, and not even examining which sex they belonged to. Later, with the advancement of science , an attempt was made to carry out DNA tests on them but, as they are buried in royal crypts, they require the approval of the monarch on duty in order to open the tombs. Queen Elizabeth II had been reluctant to allow DNA testing, but now Charles III would be open to it. Charles III studied archeology at Cambridge, is in favor of DNA testing, and has been willing to allow testing. The chief curator of royal palaces, Tracy Borman, stated at the Sandon literature festival that “Carlos has told me that he would like the investigation to continue so that he can unravel once and for all how the two young princes had died.” If finally, Carlos authorizes the exhumation, he would make it possible to determine if the bodies found were those of “the princes of the tower”, but the mystery of who killed them would remain unsolved.