An early Tudor portrait of Richard III, painted some decades after his deathImage: Barthel ii · Public domainRichard III takes the English throne
When Edward IV died in April 1483, his elder son became king as Edward V at the age of twelve, and the late king’s brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was named Protector. Within weeks Richard had seized control of the boy, arrested or executed rivals, and lodged Edward and his younger brother in the Tower of London. On 22 June a preacher in London declared that Edward IV’s marriage had been invalid and his children illegitimate, and on 25 June an assembly of lords and commons asked Richard to take the crown. On 26 June 1483 Richard accepted, and his reign as Richard III was dated from that day; he was crowned at Westminster on 6 July. The two princes were never seen in public again, and their fate has been argued over ever since. Richard ruled for barely two years before he was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485, the last English king to die in battle.
Source: Britannica: Richard III, usurpation ↗
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