Princes in the Tower may have been forewarned of Edward's illness. It is reported that he then went to York Minster to publicly "pledge his loyalty to his new king". The Croyland Chronicle states that, before his death, Edward IV designated his brother Gloucester as Lord Protector. Edward's request may not have mattered, however, since "as the precedent of Henry V showed, the council was not bound to follow the wishes of a dead king". Edward V and Gloucester set out for London from the west and north respectively, meeting at Stony Stratford on 29 April. The following morning, Gloucester arrested Edward's retinue including
Tower of the Sun transform the tower into a giant monster robot. As part of ad campaign for the model, the tower is shown in a short animated sequence in which would transform and briefly fight a monster in same style as Tokusatsu programs. The Tower of the Sun, as well as the Expo of 1970, plays a central role in Naoki Urasawa's manga: "20th Century Boys". In this series the tower becomes one of the main symbols of the "cult of the friend," an evil association that wants to conquer the world. It also appears in the movie I Wish (film) (Kiseki, 2011,