In the summer of 1483, two young boys, Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, were locked in the Tower of London and never seen again. Thought to have been murdered, they were the sons of Edward IV and his Queen, Elizabeth Woodville, and the prime suspect has always been their uncle, Richard III, although evidence has always been circumstantial. In 1647, Tower workmen unearthed a box containing two small skeletons that were presumed to belong to the princes. However, new evidence suggest
