What could have happened to Dickon? READ THIS.

[Terry]

Hey, thanks, Misfit -- every contribution is most welcome!

[Terry]

Hey, thanks, Misfit -- all contributions gratefully accepted!

[Terry]

It must be old age -- I'm beginning to repeat myself.

[Misfit]

You want me to delete a couple of them? BTW, King County is a pretty large library system, so if they're buying copies hopefully other libraries in the US will follow through.

[Joanne]

Misfit wrote: "Whoot! The library has this on order (I put in a purchase request). And for Terence - that means four books have been purchased instead of one copy I was going to buy."

Oh goodie! I hope you enjoy it!

[Misfit]

Just stumbled across this blog post about the lost princes. I'm sure there's a better thread for this, but it's been a long day and too lazy to look. I'll moderate myself later if I find it. Link.

[J.P.]

I suspect the bones in the tower are not those of the Princes. The depths at which they were found suggest to me a much earlier burial (also there were animal bones amongst them.) The Tower was a site of habitation long before it was a fortress; ten foot down suggests as least Roman era if not earlier.

[Orsolya]

Misfit wrote: "Just stumbled across this blog post about the lost princes. I'm sure there's a better thread for this, but it's been a long day and too lazy to look. I'll moderate myself later if I find it. Link."

Thanks for the article! I have such mixed feelings about the Princes and the mystery behind their deaths. Despite the realities, it is an entertaining unsolved event!

[Joan]

J. P. wrote:

I suspect the bones in the tower are not those of the Princes. The depths at which they were found suggest to me a much earlier burial (also there were animal bones amongst them.) The Tower was a site of habitation long before it was a fortress; ten foot down suggests as least Roman era if not earlier.

I also highly doubt that the tower bones are not those of the princes. Aside from your point that is thoroughly explored in Fields' Royal Blood and Carson's Richard III: The Maligned King, I also think that the evidence of the diseased jaw of the older skull has to rule out that those bones belong to Edward IV's boys. Contemporary accounts reported that both were in robust health.