The Royal Bricklayer?
Were the Princes in the Tower really murdered by Richard III? David Baldwin, a historian at the University of Leicester, claims not in his book The Lost Prince
The entire conjecture, however, is based on circumstantial evidence, which he admits, such as:
“The elder prince, Edward, was receiving regular visits from his doctor, and the treatments prescribed by medieval doctors, like blood-letting, were pretty awful. It’s quite likely they would have finished him off.
Then there is evidence to suggest that the younger prince, Richard, was secreted in Colchester.
First of all, Frances Viscount Lovel was one of Richard III’s closest friends, and after the Battle of Bosworth he rode straight to Colchester Abbey for no obvious reason.
Philip Knighton was sent to Colchester by Henry VII carrying secret papers is 1486, so it appears that there was some kind of secret there.
And when Henry VII became king, he visited Colchester no less than four times during his reign, which he didn’t do for other regions.
The impression is that there was something going on there behind the scenes.”
It is a very interesting idea. However, as convincing as the circumstantial evidence seems, it is just that - circumstantial. The man who called himself Richard Plantagenet, was able to read Latin (unusual for a bricklayer) and claimed to be an illegitimate son of Richard III could well have been just that, and not Richard of York, one of the Princes in the Tower.
However, it intrigues me, so I think I shall now have to buy the book
Sources: The Telegraph, Life Style Extra, Daily Mail
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