Edward VI

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King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553)

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Accession Coat of arms of King Edward VI The nine-year-old Edward wrote to his father and stepmother on 10 January 1547 from Hertford thanking them for his new year's gift of their portraits from life. Source: Internet

Charles James Billson, Mediaeval Leicester (Leicester, 1920) This church (a little of which survives in the basement of the Hawthorn Building of De Montfort University) was destroyed during the reign of King Edward VI. Source: Internet

Edward VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey four days later on Sunday 20 February. Source: Internet

Education King Edward VI Community College more popularly known as KEVICC, is the local secondary school which shares its name with the former grammar school set up by King Edward VI over 450 years ago. Source: Internet

Edward VI and Mary I Although he showed piety and intelligence, Edward VI was only nine years old when he took the throne in 1547. Source: Internet

Elizabeth I main The reign of Elizabeth I restored a sort of order to the realm following the turbulence of the reigns of Edward VI and Mary I when she came to the throne following the latter's death in 1558. Source: Internet

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