1. Edward V was only 12 years old when his father Edward IV died and he became king.
2. He shared a November 2 birthday with his sister Anne of York who was born five years after him.
3. Edward and his brother Richard were the “Princes in the Tower”, possibly smothered to death on the orders of Richard III in 1483.
4. Among the orders issued by Edward IV for his son’s upbringing, the young Edward V was to “arise every morning at a convenient hour, according to his age” and go to sleep at 8pm.
5. Along with Edward VIII, Edward V was one of only two English Kings who were never crowned.
6. Edward V reigned for only 78 days before being supplanted by his uncle, Richard III.
7. Richard argued that Edward IV’s marriage to Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid and their children, including Edward V, were illegitimate.
8. In 1674 workmen at the Tower Of London dug up a wooden box containing two small human skeletons. It is not known if these were the Princes.
9. The bones were buried in Westminster Abbey, which was also where Edward V had been born.
10. A US lawyer recently declared that there is not enough evidence to convict Richard III of murder.