Hello everyone!
There will be a change in the way posts are scheduled until after October’s Spooktacular is over:
Substack posts usually go out every other Thursday, but during October, there will be a podcast episode each week, so I’ll be publishing Substack posts every Monday in October. Also, this will be the last ‘A deeper dive’ post until after The Spooktacular (they’ll return in November).
Paid subscribers can expect the recap of the final episode of the first season of The Tudors on Friday as usual, but I won’t start recapping the second season until November. There won’t be a change in when Burn Book entries come out - those will be on the first of the month as usual.
The schedule will go back to ‘normal’ in November!
Also … as a special present to you all for Spooky Season, I’m going to be making my recap of the first episode of The Tudors available to everyone, as well as the first entry to The Door Key Substack Burn Book - I hope this will give everyone a chance to see what I have going on here, but mostly I just hope you enjoy it. Those two posts will become public on October 1.
Thank you all so very much for being here!
Stay spooky everyone! 🎃👻
xoxo, April
Here’s all the extra information for the episode about the princes in the Tower that I put on Social Media throughout the two weeks that the episode was current.
These are in chronological order to The Princes in the Tower’s story.
Summary: This episode discusses the Princes in the Tower mystery! After the death of King Edward IV, his sons princes Edward and Richard went into the Tower of London to await Edward’s coronation. Their uncle Richard, who was regent, seized the throne and was crowned King Richard III. The two princes were never seen again, and the mystery of what happened to them has fueled questions and theories for hundreds of years. This episode gets into the rapid sequence of events leading to the disappearance of the two princes, and various theories about who might have been responsible for it.
The Princes in the Tower:
Edward V (age 12), and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (age 9).
How do you think their youth and mysterious disappearance influenced historical and artistic interpretations?
‘The Children of Edward’ by Paul Delaroche, 1830.
This painting is currently in the Louve.
The Tower of London. At the time the two princes disappeared, this is where Kings would stay to prepare for their coronation.
This clip from the episode about the princes in the Tower discusses how the two princes were seen less and less at the Tower until they just disappeared. How do royal princes just disappear like that?
A portrait of Richard III painted in the 1520s.
He’s considered the main suspect in the disappearance of the princes in the Tower. I’m curious to know what you think!
A portrait of Henry VII from 1509. It’s in the National Portrait Gallery.
Henry VII is considered a suspect in the disappearance of the princes in the Tower. What do you think of this theory?
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
There are theories that he might have been behind the disappearance of the princes in the Tower either by himself, or on behalf of someone else. What do you think?
Two skeletons were found buried under a staircase in the Tower. It’s suspected that the remains are those of the princes. The remains were placed in this urn which is in Westminster Abbey.
Do you think these are the remains of the missing princes?
Shakespeare’s play Richard III helped shape people’s opinion of him as someone who could be responsible for his nephews going missing.
This YouTube video is of Laurence Olivier performing the ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ soliloquy.
I know I always think of this play when I think of Richard III - do you?
This clip from the episode discusses the finding of Richard III’s remains in 2012, and how that’s led to renewed interest in DNA testing the unidentified remains that are in the Westminster Abbey.
Do you think they should DNA test the remains in the urn?
Here’s a link to the episode about the princes in the Tower:
Here’s a link to Door Key’s website: