00:00I'm very excited to be able to show you something that I've not shown to anybody yet,
00:04which is a new discovery, so we need to look into this document that we have in front of us.
00:09You are the first people to see this.
00:11Wow.
00:12OK.
00:13OK.
00:15So, this is an official copy of the will of a woman called Margaret Capel.
00:21She died in 1522.
00:23She was the widow of a very wealthy and powerful Londoner called Sir William Capel.
00:28Buried deep in Margaret's will, something has caught Tim's eye.
00:33In the midst of all the detail here, we can find a reference to a bequest to her son.
00:41Also, I bequeathed to my son, Sir Giles, his father's chain, which was young King Edward V's.
00:53The chain of office of the...
00:56Of the king himself.
00:57The king.
00:58Extraordinarily, the will states that this chain of office once belonged to King Edward V,
01:07the older of the princes in the tower.
01:10This royal chain would have been completely unique to Edward and should never have been found in private hands.
01:17These chains or collars, they are very, very closely tied to the individuals who wear them.
01:23So, this chain of Edward V's is a very, very powerful object and the fact that it's in the hands of the Capel family has real significance.
01:31One of the extraordinary things about the disappearance of the princes is that, until now, they left no trace.
01:39Yes.
01:39This is the first indication of some physical possession of the princes, which is still in circulation in London in the early part of the following century.
01:57That's incredible.
01:58Finding evidence of this priceless personal item belonging to one of the missing princes would have been astonishing enough.
02:07But Tim kept digging.
02:09There's more.
02:11Right.
02:12Because Margaret Capel was the sister-in-law of James Tyrrell.
02:20Oh, my goodness.
02:24Don't believe that.
02:26Somehow, after their death, young King Edward's royal chain of office made its way into the family of one of the prime suspects,
02:35Richard III's loyal servant, James Tyrrell.
02:38This distinctive chain, the only trace of one of the missing princes, hidden deep inside a 500-year-old will, is the biggest breakthrough in the case for centuries.
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