Hannah McMorrow

To join his brother in the tower.

And that would turn out to be her biggest mistake.

And we will give you three whole guesses as to where that particular rumour came from.

Surprise, surprise, with his nephews conveniently booted out of the queue.

Grown-up Richard was next in line for the Yorkist throne.

And he was certainly wasting no time in taking it.

On the 6th of July 1483, the former Duke of Gloucester was officially crowned King Richard III with a lavish coronation at Westminster Abbey.

And as for the newly illegitimate princes, they stayed in the tower, at least at first.

Mancini wrote that they were withdrawn into the inner apartments of the tower proper and day by day began to be seen more rarely behind the bars and windows.

until, at length, they ceased to appear altogether.

By the autumn of 1483, both brothers had vanished.

And to this day, nobody can state with any certainty what happened to them.

But even if he did swing the axe at his own nephews in pursuit of power, that wasn't actually enough for Richard to secure total control.

His ill-gotten reign was brief and bloody, ending just two years later with his death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

My kingdom for a horse, it's that one.

Henry Tudor took the throne as King Henry VII and united the houses of York and Lancaster by marrying Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville's daughter, Elizabeth of York.

And that is why the Tudor rose is red and white.

And ironically enough, since he couldn't marry a bastard, Henry VII had to undo the proclamation his predecessor Richard had made and declare all of those Woodville kids legitimate after all.

Oh, phew.

So while he'd finally brought an end to the bloody War of the Roses, he actually risked leaving the door wide open to a future challenge from his new bride's brothers.