The project initiated by Philippa Langley is to search for evidence and to apply present day techniques for investigating cold cases. It is in effect a missing persons cold case.
Basically, four documents were found and each provides a piece of reliable evidence that one or other of the Princes was alive and had active supporters at the time.
Stories of the Princes surviving the Tower are not new.
I have a book by Jeremy Potter, first published 1986, titled Pretenders: Claimaints to the Throne. It has chapters that deal with pretenders who were said to have been both Princes. If readers search the web for, for example, Princes in the Tower, Edward V, Richard Duke of York, Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck, they will find much about the stories.
There is a lengthy bibliography for those chapters.
I have only heard Philippa Langley speak on this in a podcast, but the essence is that she argues that both princes survived and were not killed during the reign of Richard III.
New evidence uncovered in Flanders suggests both princes were alive and staying there several years after Henry Tudor took the crown.
This was very interesting news to me since I'm an admirer of Ms. Gregory's past diligent research in other related royal mystery. Since I don't have access to the program, can you share at this point whether her mission regarding the two princes is simply to determine who was ultimately the person who decided the fate of Edward V and his brother, or is it possibly something even further than that - e.g., to finally trace their resting place and possible remains?
I watched this TV program last night in Australia and thoroughly enjoyed it.
The work of Philippa Langley and 300 volunteers searching archives in the UK and on the Continent has uncovered some very interesting material.
The role of the York aunt of the Princes, Margaret of Burgundy, intrigues me. More discoveries could be expected in the future I would think.
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