Hannah McMorrow

Hello.

Hello.

Welcome to an episode of Shorthand that I really sincerely hope doesn't have a pedo in it, but I'm not entirely sure because I am not a Ricardian.

I hold my hands up.

Richard III is not my area of expertise.

I didn't even know that was a possibility.

That's where?

Which tower did you think they're in?

Eh?

It's called The Prince is in the Tower.

Yeah, but I thought they vanished from there.

I think they're still in there.

Oh, okay.

Let's talk about it.

In the summer of 1483, two young royal brothers went into the Tower of London and were never officially seen again.

Legend has it that they were callously murdered by their uncle, the dastardly Richard III, who soared at his own family tree to secure his spot on the throne.

But some historians believe a very different story.

that the princes survived and even went on to challenge the Tudor rule that followed their uncle's brief and inglorious reign.

Was King Richard III really the moustache-twirling villain history and Shakespeare painted him to be?

And with the discovery of suspicious boy-shaped bones years later, could modern science give us the answers historians have been seeking for centuries?