Mystery AtlasAlternative Culprit Theory
The revisionist position, associated with historians including those of the Richard III Society, that the case against Richard III is circumstantial and that the Duke of Buckingham or a later killing under Henry VII are at least as plausible, based on the absence of a public accusation and Tudor-era source bias.
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- Princes in the Towerdisappeared 1483
Alternative Culprit Theory attempts to explain Princes in the Tower.
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Alternative Culprit Theory is an alternative explanation for Richard III Guilt Theory.
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Alternative Culprit Theory is supported by Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham — Proposed by revisionist historians as the more plausible culprit, given his access to the Tower and his own dynastic motive.