The Princes in the Tower

This historical investigation examines the disappearance of Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, from the Tower of London in 1483 after their uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, took the throne as Richard III. Weir reconstructs the boys' household, the politics of Edward IV's death, the Woodville faction, and the claims later made by pretenders. She weighs chronicle evidence, later Tudor accounts, and the bones found in the Tower, and she argues a case about who ordered the deaths. The book is a narrative inquiry into one dynastic crime, not a full life of every Yorkist king.

Bound in black cloth blocked with a gilt and red image. Black slipcase.