King Charles has been encouraged to try and help solve the mystery of the Princes in the Tower.
Lady Antonia Fraser, an author and historian, reckons it could help cheer him up after a difficult year which saw him diagnosed with cancer. She has called for DNA testing of bones in Westminster Abbey which could belong to the princes, young King Edward V and his brother Richard, who vanished in 1483.
The writer said: “Charles II did not check the authenticity of the bones because he couldn’t, but Charles III could.” She said finding out who they belonged to “would be wonderful, and might cheer up the King”.
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Many think that Richard III, the uncle of the two princes, ordered the murders.
And sleuths reckon it could help prove they were killed in the Tower of London, as the remains were found in 1674 while the tower was being remodelled. The bones were buried in the abbey under the princes’ names.
Requests to submit the bones to carbon dating were rejected by the Dean of Westminster in the 1990s.
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The late Queen and the government at the time agreed with the church authorities that the matter should not be reopened.
But in 2022, it was reported that Charles, 76, takes a “very different view” on the subject and would like an investigation to go ahead.
The latest call to investigate follows a documentary this week which featured “smoking gun” evidence which could link the young royals to their alleged killer.
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Prof Tim Thornton discovered Edward’s chain featured in a will by Lady Margaret Capell, a relative of the prime suspect Sir James Tyrell.
He suggested it warrants DNA tests on the young royals’ supposed remains.
Prof Thornton, of the Royal Historical Society, said: “The balance of probabilities is shifting towards some clearer conclusions to which the testing would add.
“I understand the point about respect for the remains of the dead, and especially those who may have died in such traumatic circumstances.
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“But I also think it’s right that we try to understand better whose remains we are honouring.”
The Richard III Society, which believes the princes’ uncle was innocent, has hit out over the supposed breakthrough.
It said: “We have no evidence to authenticate the chain as belonging to Edward V other than the will.”