Following a hunch..

Historian says Richard III did' not kill princes in the Tower

- NICOLA METHVEN

THE historian who discovered Richard III’s remains under a car park in Leicester reckons she has proof he did not murder his nephews – the princes in the Tower. 

Philippa Langley and a 300-strong team of citizen historians uncovered four documents she claims show brothers Edward and Richard, aged 12 and nine when they vanished in 1483, were not killed but exiled.

In a feature-length documentary, she now tells how each of the princes later launched failed invasions to take back the English throne.

She believes the skeletons of two children found buried beneath the Tower of London in 1674 are likely to have been there since the Romans and are "probably a foundation burial from the Iron Age".