Sarah O'Connell

This changed everything.

Oh, you would be pissed if you were Elizabeth Woodville, wouldn't you?

You'd be like, you've done your job to the fucking max.

Like your job at the time as a queen or as like a royal lady, get married, have kids, have as many kids as you can.

She has 10 fucking kids.

And then they're like, nah, they're all bastards.

Oh my God, you'd be raging.

Still, two major theories prevail amongst historians.

The first, and I have to say most widely believed theory, is that the boys were killed in the tower, with their murders most likely ordered by King Richard III himself.

And it does make sense.

You always have to look in a murder mystery who has the most to gain, right?

And if Richard was ambitious enough to jump ahead in the line of succession, why would he risk leaving two little brats alive to challenge that position?

That's just very inconvenient.

Most accounts of Richard paint him as an ambitious, bloodthirsty and unscrupulous leader who basically killed anyone who stood in his way.

Though, in this respect, he honestly wasn't all that different from other kings at the time, because in medieval England, ambition and violence went hand in bloody hand.

No.

And you must have some knowledge that they are no longer around to do what he did and declare them all legitimate again.

Quite.

But logic and assumption aside...

Let's look at the anecdotal evidence for this theory.