• In February 1553, Edward VI became ill, and by June, after several improvements and relapses, he was in a hopeless condition.[147]...
  • Gaining control over the new, young King, Northumberland put Edward VI forward, at the tender age of fourteen, to be entitled to have all the power of the Late King.
  • Nothing is more controversial about Edward VI than the Protestant reforms carried forward in his name by Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury (1489–1556).
  • ...Saint George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, next to his late third wife, Jane Seymour, and he was duly succeeded by Edward who became Edward VI at his...
  • Edward VI, just nine years old when he ascended the throne on this day almost 500, grew up in a life of luxury but with a vicious temper and cruel nature, deemed by...
  • As a patron of the arts, Edward VI was a supporter of music and literature, fostering a cultural renaissance in England during his reign.
  • When Edward VI took the throne, Thomas had tried to persuade the young King to sign a Bill to allow him to share the role of Protector, which Edward had refused.
  • Edward VI is often the forgotten Tudor Monarch. Yet under his short reign, England underwent the reformation that transformed the country forever.
  • Edward VI of England is just one of those cases. Would he have been the epitome of a Protestant humanist, ruling with a velvet touch?
  • Having ascended the throne at nine years of age on the death of his father Henry VIIl, the boy king Edward VI was just fifteen when he died.