{"id":30846,"date":"2023-11-20T07:58:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=251926"},"modified":"2023-11-20T11:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:11:35","slug":"the-princes-in-the-tower-has-the-mystery-been-solved","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-princes-in-the-tower-has-the-mystery-been-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"The Princes in the Tower: has the mystery been solved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Philippa Langley shares new findings about one of history\u2019s most tantalising cold cases <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Good\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 20 November 2023 at 06:58 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>In the summer of 1483, two young princes disappeared from the Tower of London \u2013 and were never seen again. Had they been killed by their uncle, Richard III, in his bid for the English throne? Had someone else murdered them? Or had they been whisked away to safety? Philippa Langley, whose work helped to locate the bones of Richard III under a Leicester car park, talks to Rebecca Franks about new discoveries made by <em>The Missing Princes Project<\/em>.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-251926-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtra20231120v2-ca96592.mp3?_=1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtra20231120v2-ca96592.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtra20231120v2-ca96592.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Philippa Langley is the author of <em>The Princes in the Tower: Solving History\u2019s Greatest Cold Case<\/em> (The History Press, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-princes-in-the-tower-solving-history-s-greatest-cold-case-philippa-langley\/7521142\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Princes-Tower-Solving-Historys-Greatest\/dp\/1803995416\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/the-princes-in-the-tower\/philippa-langley\/9781803995410\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Philippa Langley shares new findings about one of history\u2019s most tantalising cold cases <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30847,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/the-princes-in-the-tower-has-the-mystery-been-solved.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/the-princes-in-the-tower-has-the-mystery-been-solved-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/the-princes-in-the-tower-has-the-mystery-been-solved-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/the-princes-in-the-tower-has-the-mystery-been-solved.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/the-princes-in-the-tower-has-the-mystery-been-solved.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/the-princes-in-the-tower-has-the-mystery-been-solved.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/the-princes-in-the-tower-has-the-mystery-been-solved.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Philippa Langley shares new findings about one of history\u2019s most tantalising cold cases","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/30846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}