Princes in the Tower act stated that Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville's marriage was invalid because of Edward's pre-contract of marriage with Lady Eleanor Butler. Gloucester was crowned King Richard III of England on 3 July. The declaration of the boys' illegitimacy has been described by Rosemary Horrox as an ex post facto justification for Richard's accession. Dominic Mancini, an Italian friar who visited England in the 1480s and who was in London in the spring and summer of 1483, recorded that after Richard III seized the throne, Edward and his younger brother Richard were taken into the "inner apartments of the Tower" and
The Politeness of Princes The Politeness of Princes "The Politeness of Princes" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United Kingdom in the July 1902 issue of "The Captain". It is a school story, set at Wrykyn school. The story later appeared in the United States in the collection "The Swoop! and Other Stories" (1979), and was the title story of the Project Gutenberg eBook "The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories". The title comes from the saying, "Punctuality is the politeness of princes." Chapple, a boy in Seymour's house, has trouble dragging himself out of bed