Death of the Little Princes (R-3 OT)

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No: HPFGUIDX 11416

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...> wrote:
> 
>  On the contrary - Richard III - at least the evil literary Richard 
> III  of the Elizabethan stage - needed to get the little princes 
> out of the way just as surely as Voldemort needed to dispense with 
> the Potters *pere et fils*.
> As long as the princes - the sons of the late king Edward IV - 
> remained alive, Richard's claim to the throne remained clouded, 
> since he was appointed to serve as their regent (the princes were 
> then 12 and 10 years old IIRC) until they reached an age to rule on 
> their own.
> 

Hrm, quite right.  I wonder what I was cluing in on...maybe the 
(reputed) needless brutality of the (alleged) killings.  But then 
what murder isn't needlessly brutal?

marvin