PHILIPPA Langley, who came to national attention with her persistent – and ultimately successful – efforts to locate the remains of King Richard III (under a Leicester car park), comes to the Electric Palace at Bridport on Thursday 19th September with a talk about her latest historical investigations.

Her talk, The Princes in the Tower, which will be followed by a Q&A and book signing, follows the Channel 4 documentary she made with the judge and barrister-turned-broadcaster Rob Rinder, investigating what has been called “history’s greatest cold case.” The Princes, whose supposed murder has for centuries been laid at Richard III’s door, were the deposed King Edward V of England and his younger brother Prince Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, heirs to the throne of King Edward IV. Their story is one of the blackest incidents in the bloody Wars of the Roses.

Continuing her interest in how history – and William Shakespeare – have portrayed Richard III, Langley reveals new research which she believes shows that the Princes were not murdered on the orders of their uncle Richard III in 1483 but did in fact survive.

The talk covers her astonishing discoveries and the fascinating detective work she undertook to challenge 500 years of accepted views about the fate of the young Princes.