The Princes In The Tower, By Alison Weir

The Princes in the Tower was written in 1992, by the renowned historical writer Alison Weir. The book depicts the famous boy king Edward V, his brother and their uncle Richard III. The term princes in the tower is already a famous term for these boys who went missing after the death of their father and was founded in the form of corpse and bones in 1674, during this time there were rumours going around the royal circles that their uncle the Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, had murdered them. The author argues that Richard III is in fact responsible for the death of these boys and explains to the readers where it all started, how the event lead up, and ultimately who killed the princes. The author does not seem to have a specific intended audience for this book since one would not need many back up information reading this book. Weir tries her best to make the book self explanatory by providing her audience all the information you would need in understanding this book. Overall I feel that Weir did a thorough research in the matter, however from the beginning she held prejudice against Richard III which blinded her from seeing other possibilities.
At time she included so much information, and made sure to source everything, and at other times the author states things and fails to prove that the information she provides us are facts. sometimes includes unnecessary informations with great details, such as how some may spell Elizabeth Wydville’s last name differently, and how it is written on her gravestone. At other times I felt that the author purposely left some facts out to make her argument undoubtable. Such event happens when Weir talks about Richard III’s reputation while he ruled in the North(1472-83), Weir spends a whole paragraph stressing how the people of City of York were favourable of Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III. She then suddenly claims that they feared