Review: Interesting theory on the prince in the tower
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2014
The author is an ex-policeman, so focuses on "evidence" of which there is little for this era. In the case of the princes, no one has any definitive information on what happened to them. I found this book interesting, although somewhat brief. There are some issues that I consider important in working out possible solutions here and he misses several of them - he did however include several important questions, such as why did Elizabeth Woodville let her children out of sanctuary. Two other questions involving her are ignored: first, why did she "reconcile" with Richard after the probable death of her sons? And secondly, why did Henry VII shut her in a nunnery a few years after he married her daughter? I thought he was a bit too brief on Henry Stafford (Buckingham), whose overt ambition is clearer than he said. And I also thought he accepted as an assumption (I.e. no smoke without fire) a sexual affair between Richard and his niece. That would have been incest and offended the church's views of consanguinity, so it was no wonder when Richard heard the rumours he set out to scotch them. On the other hand, his solution is interesting and plausible - the boys were always a greater threat to Henry than Richard. The repeal and destruction of Titus Regilius was always inexplicable and an important piece of evidence.