The Princes in the Tower

War of the roses was a struggle between two rival branches of the royal house of plantagenet, the house of york and the house of lancaster. The name wars of the roses comes from these symbols, although that term was not coined until later on. Another is the princes in the tower, which came into use in the nineteenth century to refer to king edward the fifth and his brother, richard of shrewsbury, duke of york. They were also a little bit older than they look in a lot of art work. There are some paintings where they look more like ten and eight, or maybe even younger than that.