How the Tudors Lost Their Heads

S01E02 Perkin Warbeck & the Princes in the Tower

In 1491 Ireland, a young man steps forward declaring himself Richard, Duke of York—one of the vanished Princes in the Tower. With backing from European rulers, he becomes a dangerous challenger to King Henry VII of England. Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Snow dig into the proof surrounding one of history's most convincing impostors. Could he actually have been England's true king?