Princes in the Tower becoming king, Henry married the princes' eldest sister, Elizabeth of York, to reinforce his claim to the throne. Not wanting the legitimacy of his wife or her claim as heiress of Edward IV called into question, prior to the marriage he had repealed the "Titulus Regius" which had previously declared the princes (and Elizabeth) illegitimate. Markham suggests the princes were executed under Henry's orders between 16 June and 16 July 1486, claiming that it was only after this date that orders went out to circulate the story that Richard had killed the princes, and that the princes' mother, Elizabeth Woodville,
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