Richard held a council meeting and began dismissing his opponents and promoting his followers. On the 10th of May Edward was lodged in the Tower of London to prepare for his coronation. The Tower of London, via TimeOut Magazine She also took young Richard Duke of York, who was only nine years old, with her.
The Queen gathered up her other children and fled to safety in Westminster Abbey, just as she had in 1470 when Edward was born. Word reached Queen Elizabeth Woodville of her brother’s arrest and of Richard taking control of the new King. He had known the men all his life, but may not have met Richard many times in his young life, if at all. He told Edward they were traitors, but the young King protested their innocence. Early the next morning, 30th April, Richard arrested Woodville and the other members of Edward’s party. On route Richard, Duke of Gloucester met the party and the adults spent the evening drinking.
The coronation was to be held on the 4th May 1483. The new King Edward V left Ludlow Castle with his paternal uncle, Anthony Woodville, to travel to London for his coronation on the 24th of April. How the Princes Were Sent to the Tower Ludlow Castle, the boyhood home of Prince Edward, via Shropshire Star Magazine The two boys did not grow up together and may only have met occasionally. His younger brother, Richard, Duke of York was born in 1473 and was raised with his sisters in his mother’s household. He was invested as Prince of Wales and remained there until his father’s death. He was under the care of his paternal uncle Anthony Woodville, Duke of Rivers in Ludlow Castle. King Edward IV by an unknown artist, 16th century, via Royal Collection TrustĮdward, Prince of Wales was born in Westminster Abbey in 1470 and sent to Wales when he was three. There was also some controversy surrounding the paternity of Edward IV himself, but not surrounding his brother Richard III. This would be used against his children in later years. Moves had already been made to find Edward a suitable wife. A King was to marry a noblewoman and a virgin. The marriage caused controversy as she was seen as not a fit consort for a King. Most of these Kings lost their lives through violence.Įlizabeth, unusually for a Queen, was a widow with children when she married Edward, and she was also a commoner. They were born during the War of the Roses, a dynastic struggle that saw 7 English Kings in Thirty years come and go. The Princes in the Tower were the children of Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth Woodville. Princes in the Tower: The Background Story Edward V, Minor King of England, and Richard, Duke of York, his younger brother by Paul Delaroche, 1830, via Louvre, Paris
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