
The Princes in the Tower
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Perkin Warbeck - The Rich Impostor Story
People think the boys lived in the tower for a couple of years, hidden away, until henry the seventh had them killed so that he could become king. Other people interpret this more as just confirmation that they were definitely dead by this point. There are also, though, people who believed that at least one of the boys lived for much longer,. A man called perkin warbeck convinced a number of very powerful people, including james the fourth of scotland and holy roman emperor maximilian the first, that he really was richard duke of york. He eventually confessed to being an impostor. Though, yes, we actually did an episode on perkin war
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