“The Little Princes in the Tower” and the 1480’s seen through a Victorian looking glass. One of the world’s most enduring mysteries but one surely without accoutrements a little person in the Windsor nurseries in 1850 would have known.

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"The Princes in the Tower." 1878.
“The Princes in the Tower.” 1878. British. Oil on canvas. John Everett Millais, artist (1829-1896). Royal Holloway Collection. In the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. via https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Princes.jpg.
"The Princes in the Tower." 1861.
“The Princes in the Tower.” 1861. British. Oil on canvas. Henrietta Ward, artist (1832-1924). via ArtUK. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ward-Princes.jpg
"The Princes in the Tower." 1831.
“The Princes in the Tower.” 1831. French. Oil on canvas. Paul Delaroche, artist (1797–1856). Photo credit: Historic Royal Palaces, Tower of London. Fair use license. via https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-princes-in-the-tower-134928.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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