"The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower" (1878) is a painting by Sir John Everett Millais. The painting is part of the Royal Holloway picture collection today.The painting depicts Edward V of England (November 4, 1470 – 1483?) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (17 August 1473 – 1483?), two sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. Both princes were declared illegitimate by an Act of Parliame...
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"The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower" (1878) is a painting by Sir John Everett Millais. The painting is part of the Royal Holloway picture collection today.
The painting depicts Edward V of England (November 4, 1470 – 1483?) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (17 August 1473 – 1483?), two sons of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. Both princes were declared illegitimate by an Act of Parliament of 1483 known as Titulus Regius. Their uncle, who would become Richard III of England, placed them in the Tower of London in 1483, where the boys may have died or been killed later that year.
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