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...scandal is revived. Anatomists tell King George V that their science can tell the exact age of human bones and therefore the exact year the princes were murdered. King George authorizes them to open the urn...
...Workmen, repairing the winding staircase of the White Tower, exhume some bones, throw them on a rubbish heap. Someone tells King Charles II, a sentimentalist, that the bones must be those of the murdered "Little Princes." He orders all the princely bones which can be recovered put in an urn. The sealed urn goes to Westminster Abbey to be kept with the dust of other English royalty...
June 1933. The funeral urn is secretly opened in the presence of reliable dignitaries-Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, Lord Moynihan. president of the Royal College of Surgeons; Professor William Wright, president of the Anatomical Society; William Foxley Norris, dean of Westminster and of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath; Sir Edward Knapp-Fisher, chapter clerk of Westminster Abbey; and Lawrence Edward Tanner, keeper of muniments of Westminster Abbey...
While the others watch, Professor Wright and Mr. Tanner for five secret days carefully, gently and awfully measure each & every princely bone. They photograph them, wrap them in finest lawn. Dean Norris replaces the bones in the urn with a statement on parchment of what has been done in June 1933. The Dean reads part of the Anglican burial service. The urn is resealed and replaced in its niche in Westminster Abbey. King George gets a confidential report, which he permits Anatomist Wright and Muniment-Keeper Tanner to reveal...
Aghast at what was happening, henchmen of ex-Premier Azana and other leaders who made Spain a Republic, began to do their bit by bursting into polling places and smashing voting urns amid a welter of trampled ballots. Even the anti-Socialist but definitely Republican party of Premier Don Diego Martinez Barrios grew nervous as it began to seem that the women's vote might give victory to extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired...