I really wanted to see both sides of the argument. I wanted her to convince me that Richard was guilty as neatly as Tey had convinced me that he was innocent. I read this right after reading Josephine Tey's excellent and eye-opening The Daughter of Time, because I thought it was only fair to get an anti-Richard opinion before I decided where on the spectrum my opinions lay. Unfortunately, Weir did not go into writing this book with an open mind-she went in condemning Richard, and it shows. That said, it's an excellent overview of the historical scenario of the time-it's very readable, if a bit pulpy. I actually told my library that I lost it and paid for it so I could keep the copy I had scribbled angry comments in the margins. This is my favorite book to mutter angrily at. Join the Circle for author chats and more. We are witnesses to the rivalry, ambition, intrigue, and struggle for power that culminated in the imprisonment of the princes and the hushed-up murders that secured Richard’s claim to the throne as Richard III.Ī masterpiece of historical research and a riveting story of conspiracy and deception, The Princes in the Tower at last provides a solution to this age-old puzzle. Did Richard III really kill “the Princes in the Tower,” as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely?Ĭarefully examining every shred of contemporary evidence as well as dozens of modern accounts, Alison Weir reconstructs the entire chain of events leading to the double murder. Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain two of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history.
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