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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
the Princes in the Tower
the Princes in the Tower [the Princes in the Tower] BrE NAmE
a name given to the two young sons of King ↑Edward IV, i.e. the boy king ↑Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of ↑York 3 (1472–83), who went to live in the royal ↑apartments (= private rooms) in the ↑Tower of London in 1483 after their father died. They disappeared, and some people believe they were murdered either by ↑Richard III, who had become king, or by ↑Henry VII. The bones of two young children found in the Tower and tested in 1933 are believed to be theirs.
See also ↑White Tower
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