Edoardo V, l'unico re d'Inghilterra senza corona, accompagnato da suo zio il Duca di Gloucester, che in seguito lo depose e regnò come Riccardo III Ricevuto dal Sindaco di Londra, 4 maggio 1483
2748 x 3679 px | 23,3 x 31,1 cm | 9,2 x 12,3 inches | 300dpi
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1 maggio 2023
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Illustration by Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927) from the illustrated London news coronation record of King Edward the 7th 1902 From Wiki: Edward V (2 November 1470 – c. mid-1483)[1][2] was de jure King of England from 9 April to 25 June 1483. He succeeded his father, Edward IV, upon the latter's death. Edward V was never crowned, and his brief reign was dominated by the influence of his uncle and Lord Protector, the Duke of Gloucester, who deposed him to reign as King Richard III; this was confirmed by the Act entitled Titulus Regius, which denounced any further claims through his father's heirs. Edward V and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, were the Princes in the Tower who disappeared after being sent to heavily guarded royal lodgings in the Tower of London. Responsibility for their deaths is widely attributed to Richard III, but the lack of solid evidence and conflicting contemporary accounts allow for other possibilities. Arrangements were made for Edward V's coronation on 22 June 1483. Before the king could be crowned, the marriage of his parents was declared bigamous and therefore invalid. Now officially illegitimate, their children were barred from inheriting the throne. On 25 June, an assembly of lords and commoners endorsed a declaration to this effect, and proclaimed Richard as the rightful king. He was crowned on 6 July 1483. Edward and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, called the "Princes in the Tower", were not seen in public after August, and accusations circulated that they had been murdered on King Richard's orders, after the Tudor dynasty established their rule a few years later.
