Hannah McMorrow

They didn't really examine them that much at all.

The report even called the skeletons Edward and Richard from the second page onwards and quoted Shakespeare as the reason to believe that they were who...

There wasn't even testing available back then to verify gender of said bones.

and obviously it's 1933, they couldn't do DNA testing or carbon dating, so it's all just fucking nonsense.

Anyway, the report left more questions than answers.

We still can't conclusively say that the bones at Westminster Abbey are, in fact, the missing princess.

Although I have questions about a lot of bones in Westminster Abbey actually being who they're supposed to be.

The major sources supporting this theory are tied to two famous pretenders to the crown in 1474 and 1494 respectively, Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck.

While conventional wisdom says that they were just impostors posing as the lost princes, Langley reckons that they were in fact the real McCoy, back for another go at getting their disinherited bums on the English throne.

In 1487, just a few short years after the princes vanished, a coronation was held at a church in Dublin, Ireland, for a lad who was going around calling himself Edward V.

Now 16 and ready to rule, he'd made friends in high places across Europe, including the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian and his wife, Margaret of Burgundy.

And this was a biggie because Margaret was the sister of Edward and Richard of York, making her his aunt.

Aunty and uncle were clearly on board with Edward's bid to reclaim his lost kingdom.

Langley's team found an accounting receipt where Maximilian ordered 400 longpikes for an invasion, naming a son of King Edward, who was expelled from his dominion.

Langley makes a lot of the fact that Margaret of Burgundy appeared to publicly recognise and acknowledge this person as her nephew.

But let's just think about that for a second.

Margaret famously detested King Henry VII, the man who took her late brother's crown.

Historian Dr. Elizabeth Norton describes her as the last remaining Yorkist in an independent and prominent position who would absolutely work towards usurping him.

So the fact that she gave money and military support to a guy who said he was her nephew doesn't necessarily mean she believed him.

She just kind of wanted everyone to think that's who he was.