Chapter 13. The Young King
Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch13
Copyright © 2009 Eric Ives
Book Title
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Additional Information
How to Cite
Ives, E. (2009) The Young King, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch13
Publication History
- Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
- Published Print: 18 SEP 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405194136
Online ISBN: 9781444307832
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- Edward VI, born at Hampton Court amid great rejoicing in 1537;
- more than a quarter of a century - England, again having a male heir to the throne;
- fifteen years and eight months later - Edward lay dying in Greenwich Palace;
- his sister Mary, and her five years’ rule - legacy of burnings, domestic division and foreign humiliation;
- Edward's subjects, grieving for their lost king - one of the great might-have-beens;
- victim of men intent on exploiting his naivety to their own advantage;
- myth of Northumberland, the manipulator of the child Edward - for four hundred and fifty years;
- entitled by the king ‘my deuise for the succession’ - leading to Jane Grey being proclaimed queen