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his brother richard, duke of york, who disappeared in , amidst rumours that they had met their deaths in the tower of london . nearly two centuries later, in , workmen employed in demolishing a staircase within the tower of london, leading to the chapel of the white tower, made the discovery of the bones
of two children in an elm chest, at around a depth of ten feet. charles ii, then the reigning monarch, ordered that the bones be examined by the royal surgeon and asked the architect sir christopher wren to design a white marble container and they were reverently placed in the abbey, close to the tomb...
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