This book investigates the most important royal murder mystery of the 15th, and perhaps any, century. How did the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother, the Duke of York, meet their ends in the Tower of London, and who was responsible? Richard III has always been the prime suspect, having benefited most from their deaths. Yet doubts remain. Modern scholars have tried to disentangle the true story from the black propaganda put about by the Tudor family after they deposed Richard in 1485, leading to some revisions of the orthodox view. Against the complicated background of dynastic rivalries and conflicts which made up the Wars of the Roses, Alison Weir weighs up the evidence from all the available contemporary sources as well as the judgements of later historians. The cast list in this drama is formidable, but the explanations of who did what to whom and when are clear and concise, providing a real insight into the intricacies of late-15th-century English politics and society. (Kirkus UK)