2-638-559 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Son's of Edward IV Parted from their Mother, by Richard Duke of Gloucester, June 16th 1483', (1878). Edward V (1470-1483) and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York (1473-1483), the Princes in the Tower. Edward succeeded his father, Edward IV, as King in April 1483. He was deposed in June and was succeeded by his uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who ruled as Richard III. The two young princes were subsequently imprisoned and murdered in the Tower of London. From Pictures and Royal Portraits Illustrative of English and Scottish History, by Thomas Archer. [Blackie & Son, London, Glasgow & Edinburgh, 1878]