Editing Princes in the Tower (section)

==In popular culture==
The mystery of the Princes in the Tower has spawned best-selling novels such as [[Josephine Tey]]'s ''[[The Daughter of Time]]''<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Moody|editor-first=Susan|title=Hatchard's Crime Companion: The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time Selected by the Crime Writers' Association; foreword by Len Deighton |date=1990|publisher=Hatchard|location=London|isbn=0-904030-02-4}}</ref> and four novels in Philippa Gregory's ''Cousins' War'' series, and continues to attract the attention of historians and novelists.

===Literature===

====Fiction====
*[[C. Lysah]] – ''The Little Princes in the Tower'' (1892)
*[[Elaine M. Alphin]] – ''Tournament of Time'' (1994)
*[[Sonya Hartnett]] – ''[[Princes (novel)|Princes]]'' (1997)
*[[Valerie Anand]] – ''Crown of Roses'' (1989)
*[[Margaret Campbell Barnes]] – ''The Tudor Rose'' (1953)
*[[Emma Darwin (novelist)|Emma Darwin]] – ''A Secret Alchemy'' (2009)
*[[John M. Ford]] – ''[[The Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History]]'' (1983)
*[[Elizabeth George]] – "I, Richard" (short story) (2002)
*[[Philippa Gregory]]
**''[[The White Queen (novel)|The White Queen]]'' (2009)
**''[[The Red Queen (Gregory novel)|The Red Queen]]'' (2010)
**''[[The Kingmaker's Daughter]]'' (2012)
** ''[[The White Princess]]'' (2013)
*[[Margaret Peterson Haddix]]
**''[[Found (novel)|Found]]'' (2008)
**''[[Sent (novel)|Sent]]'' (2009)
*[[Rosemary Hawley Jarman]] – ''"We Speak No Treason"'' (1971)
*[[Sharon Kay Penman]] – ''[[The Sunne in Splendour]]'' (1982)
*[[Elizabeth Peters]] – ''The Murders of Richard III'' (1974)
*[[Anne Easter Smith]]
**''A Rose for the Crown'' (2008)
**''The Daughter of York'' (2008)
**''The King's Grace'' (2009)
**''Royal Mistress'' (2013)
*[[Jason Charles]] – ''The Claws of Time'' (2017)
*[[William Shakespeare]] – ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'' (circa 1595)
*[[Josephine Tey]] – ''[[The Daughter of Time]]'' (1951)
*[[George R. R. Martin]] – ''[[A Clash of Kings]]'' (1998), where the bodies of two young boys, thought to be princes, are found hanged and burned. Martin's ''[[A Game of Thrones]]'' is inspired in part by the [[Wars of the Roses]].
*[[Jodi Taylor]] – ''Plan for the Worst'' (2020)

====Non-fiction====
*[[Horace Walpole]] – ''Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III'' (1768)
*{{cite book|first=Clements|last= Markham|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36451 |title=Richard III: His Life and Character|year=1906| author-link=Clements Markham}}
*Audrey Williamson – ''The Mystery of the Princes'' (1978)
*Giles St. Aubyn – ''The Year of Three Kings, 1483'' (Atheneum, 1983)
*[[A. J. Pollard]] – ''Richard III and the Princes in the Tower'' (1991)
*[[Alison Weir]] – ''The Princes in the Tower'' (1992)
*[[Bert Fields]] – ''Royal Blood: Richard III and the mystery of the princes'' (HarperCollins, 1998) ({{ISBN|0-06-039269-X}})
*Josephine Wilkinson – ''The Princes in the Tower'' (2013)
*[[John Ashdown-Hill]] – ''The Mythology of the "Princes in the Tower"'' (2018)
*Nathen Amin – ''Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders; Simnel, Warbeck and Warwick'' (2020)
*[[Philippa Langley]] – ''The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case'' (The History Press, 2023)

===Television===
*The [[The Black Adder|first series]] of the British [[sitcom]] ''[[Blackadder]]'' is set in a comic [[alternative history]] where the Princes in the Tower survived and grew to adulthood. Prince Richard, the father of main protagonist [[Edmund_Blackadder#Prince_Edmund,_Duke_of_Edinburgh/The_Black_Adder_(Medieval_England)|Edmund Plantagenet]], assumed the throne as [[Richard IV of England (Blackadder)|Richard IV]] following the accidental death of Richard III after a Yorkist victory at the [[Battle of Bosworth Field]]. There is no explanation of what became of Edward V. According to the show, [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] assumed power after the finale and erased Richard IV's reign from history, along with ruining the reputation of Richard III.<ref>{{cite book |title=British TV Comedies |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137552952 |editor-last1=Kamm |editor-first1=Jürgen |editor-last2=Neumann |editor-first2=Birgit |chapter=The Uses of History in Blackadder |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137552952_10 |last=Sedlmayr |first=Gerold |date=26 January 2016 |pages=153–166 |doi=10.1057/9781137552952_10 |isbn=978-1-349-55518-5 |access-date=4 June 2023}}</ref>
*An episode of the Canadian children's documentary series ''[[Mystery Hunters]]'' is dedicated to the unsolved case of the missing princes.
*In 1984, Channel 4 broadcast a four-hour "trial"<ref>''The Trial of Richard III'' by Richard Drewett and Mark Redhead, published by Alan Sutton in 1984, {{ISBN|0-86299-198-6}}</ref> of Richard III on the charge of murdering the princes. The presiding judge was [[Lord Elwyn-Jones]] and the barristers were recruited from the Queen's Counsel, but had to remain anonymous. Expert witnesses included [[David Starkey]]. The jury was composed of ordinary citizens. The burden of proof was left to the prosecution. The jury found in favour of the defendant.
*In 2005 [[Channel 4]] and RDF Media produced a drama entitled ''Princes in the Tower'' about the interrogation of [[Perkin Warbeck]], in which Warbeck almost convinces Henry VII that he really is Richard, Duke of York. The real Princes are shown by [[Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby|Margaret Beaufort]] to be still alive, but insane after many years imprisoned in chains in a cell.
*The ''[[Black Butler]]'' [[anime]] episode "His Butler, in an Isolated Castle" features the ghosts of the two young princes.
*The 2013 [[BBC One]] 10-part TV series ''[[The White Queen (miniseries)|The White Queen]]'' is an adaptation of Philippa Gregory's novels ''The White Queen'' (2009), ''The Red Queen'' (2010) and ''The Kingmaker's Daughter'' (2012).
*The 2017 [[Starz]] miniseries ''[[The White Princess (miniseries)|The White Princess]]'' is an adaptation of Philippa Gregory's novel of the same name which speculates on the fate of Prince Richard.
*In 2023, [[Robert Rinder]] and [[Philippa Langley]] presented a Channel 4 programme, ''The Princes in the Tower: The New Evidence''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Watch The Princes in the Tower: The New Evidence {{!}} Stream free on Channel 4 |url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-princes-in-the-tower-the-new-evidence#:~:text=Did%20Richard%20III%20kill%20his,on%20The%20Missing%20Princes%20Project. |website=www.channel4.com |language=en}}</ref>